Maze by the sea

The essays in The Labyrinth by the Sea were written in the early 1970s, but the manuscript, published in 1973, was never published because the Polish communist leadership blacklisted Zbigniew Herbert. authors. The book was first published after the author's death in 2000. Herbert focused on European antiquity, traces of which are visible throughout the continent. His fascination with Greece and Rome was born in Latin lessons in high school, so the poet saw with his own eyes the Palace of Knossos and the Acropolis, the groves of Olympia and the estate of the Delphic oracle, Etruscan monuments Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Volterra and Wei, Roman Forum in Adria distant homeland of the British and Saxons. Pericles and Evans, Freud and Grzegorz Jaslikowski, a Latin teacher from Lviv, speak to us from the pages of the book.