Eriphyle Poem by dimitrios galanis

A raid against Theba's wealthy usurped throne
stumbling was in seer Amfiarao's reservations sober.
No suitable the conditions for starting the campaign, insisted.
-What do seers know about conditions, enraged the argive king.
-Conditions is a matter of plans to forward by golden means,
defended king's groom Polynikes, the claimer of sceptre.
''Your sister Eriphyle, my king, the reasonable wife of Amfiarao,
with our ancestral heirloom, the devine necklace, on her neck
will ensure her husband's positive forcast, devine augure.''

But six out of the seven eminent participants fell on battle's field
under the conditions suitable predicted by the bribe's verdict.
And when, years after, the seven's sons decided a second raid,
to ensure positive the inclination and judgment of Erifyle's scale
one had to offer her the other devine ancestral heirloom, Athena's veil.
For coquetry's pretended sake the two wealth's accessoires
two propelled wars, desastrous for all poor weaks summoned up.
In the first, even her husband prematurely sent she to Hades lap.
In the second with death diced she even the lives of her sons.
Fair to have stayed necklace and veil bribe's stigma on angiographs.

Coquetries of wealthy notables go as back as myths' ages
and still we allow their lusty hands on sceptres carry necklaces, veils,
assault, seize greed's thrones, exploit in their interest earth's pores
beyond commoner's measures, mortal endurance, biotic necessities.
Mandatory audit not to require! Whence golden veils, necklaces?
This here and that there and those adjacent or in snake's holes,
wherever in earth's surface, or 'ubicumque orbis terrarum manent abscondita'.