#Greek Tragedy
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WAKE UP BITCHES THEY FOUND NEW EURIPIDES FRAGMENTS
98 LINES, 80% COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL
#Euripides#greek tragedy#classical studies#ancient greek#tagamemnon#archaeology#classics stuff#local queer classicist posts
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It's an old tale
#Hello tumblr I am alive#illustration#art#procreate#I haven't made new spn art but look at what I've been doing meanwhile#fanart#hadestown#orpheus#eurydice#hadestown fanart#orpheus and eurydice#orpheus and euridyce#orphydice#musical fanart#greek mythology#greek tragedy#greek gods
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i don't care.
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Saw someone making a joke about how Odysseus confronting the suitors happens when he’s naked and no hate for the joke I get that a lot of people think public nudity is funny but like… that part of the story is really important to me.
This is a man that has been on a journey and fucked over and changed and played with by fate for years to the point where he is almost forced to strip his identity and rebuild it for survival. When he returns to his Home Land yes he is wearing a disguise but he was also the one raining king of Ithaca. No one recognized his face, his voice, the only one to truly recognize him was his neglected and dying dog. When he reveals his true self he literally has to strip himself bare before any one realizes.
The idea of the thing that kept you alive and kept you fighting being the same thing that makes it easier to strip your core beliefs and personality bare and rebuild yourself into something not even you can recognize in the end is really impactful for me.
#idk it just means something to me#greek mythology#myth#mythology#odysseus#odyssey#writing#greek tragedy
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” Am I not right to weep? O my children, cursed children of a hateful mother - ”
#medea#my art#cw blood#cw mild nudity#euripides medea#greek tragedy#greek theatre#this play is Female Rage by excellence#hmm yes the blood of her sons on her face hands breasts and belly the parts of her body that her children knew the most yes indeed#im really proud of this#:)#lots of symbolism here#the red shawl is her hate while the black one is a mourning blanket#it's dwarfed by her heartbreak which enveloped her whole and bears no blood bc it's already red#her eyes are golden like Circe's who's her kinswoman#the handle of the dagger is Jason who isn't explicitly wounded by her but drove her hand (the blame of the murders actually befalling him)#<that's why it's not bloodied unlike the blade which was used to hurt#her tear washed down the blood on her cheek representing her being absorbed of her crime by both the gods and her grief#on the mural behind her is Medea enchanting the dragon while Jason steals the Golden Fleece#and above (right) is Hera and Iris and (left) Helios in his chariot#with female chorus masks lamenting Medea's crime like the chorus in the play#the pose and expression are inspired by the poster for Médée by Mucha for the Théâtre de la Renaissance starring Sarah Bernhardt#overall proud of this#i think women deserve to go a little mad and violent when they're angry. as a treat#anyway thanks Euripides for the 500bc feminism
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promise I will stop posting about the Oresteia soon but here is Cassandra
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this has to be enough
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ἥκω Διὸς παῖς τήνδε Θηβαίων χθόνα Διόνυσος, ὃν τίκτει ποθ᾽ ἡ Κάδμου κόρη Σεμέλη λοχευθεῖσ᾽ ἀστραπηφόρῳ πυρί
"I have come, the child of Zeus, to this land of Thebes. I, Dionysus, whom Semele the daughter of Cadmus once bore, brought forth by the fire of lightning."
Bacchae - Euripides
#art#my art#digital art#digital illustration#fanart#artists on tumblr#clip studio paint#horror art#dionysus#bacchae#the bacchae#greek mythology art#greek mythology#greek gods#ancient greek#ancient greece#euripides#euripedes#dionysos#pentheus#cadmus#greek tragedy#ancient greek gods#ancient greek mythology#ancient greek religion#liber#maenads#zagreus
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While Jason Todd and Tim Drake are both tragedies, Jason is a Shakespearian tragedy (doomed by the narrative) while Tim is a Greek tragedy (doomed by himself/his own flaws). In this essay I will-
#batfam#batfam dc#batfamily#dc#dc comics#jason todd#tim drake#tregedies#greek tragedy#shakespearian tragedy
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Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays
#bookblr#buy books and read books all day long#bookmania#book of the day#booklr#books and reading#study aesthetic#studyblr#studyspo#greek mythology#greek tragedy#ancient greek
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(apologies to my followers here for an off topic post, but i want this to show up in some tags (for once) and my personal account is... hidden from search, lol.)
i recently recovered my old hard drive from my dead laptop, including recovering my theatre bootlegs. one of which is something i've seen people asking about for the past couple of years (and had been trying to find again myself without luck): a BBC4 broadcast of the 2015 Barbican production of Anne Carson's translation of Antigone, directed by Ivo van Hove. it was broadcast twice and never released on DVD or permanent streaming. there used to be public links around, but all of them are dead as of right now that i could track down.
so i have uploaded it to archive.org now i have it again!
i had to convert the mkv to mp4, for reasons of 'my broadband is shit and uploads too slowly', but it's still good quality. anyway, i enjoy this production a lot. i want more people to watch it! i'm glad i could get it back and upload it somewhere.
#antigone#anne carson#sophocles#theatre#ivo van hove#juliette binoche#greek tragedy#classics#video gift#tagamemnon
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donna tartt’s reading list
In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Greek Poets and Tragedians
Argonautica
Antigone
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
Medea
Oedipus Rex
The Bacchae
The Frogs
Dante
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Shakespeare
“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”
Macbeth
Hamlet
Dickens
“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Nabokov
Pale Fire
Lolita
Proust
In Search of Lost Time
Swann’s Way
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Helena
Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
Edward St. Aubyn
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Norwegian Wood
Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Don DeLillo
White Noise
Underworld
W.G. Sebald
Austerlitz
The Rings of Saturn
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
The White Album
Other Specific Books
Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski
A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq
#dark academia#tbr#dark academia books#donna tartt#tartt#the secret history#tsh donna tartt#book recs#books#book recommendations#classics#classic literature#literature#homer#dante#charles dickens#evelyn waugh#joan didion#greek tragedy#virginia woolf#woolf#fyodor dostoevsky#marcel proust#vladimir nabokov#shakespeare#classical studies#university#reading list#dark academia reading list
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Euripides, The Bacchae (405 BC).
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thinking about the parallels between the famous “I can take care of myself just fine.” // “No.” and these greek play quotes:
“I’ll take care of you.” // “It’s rotten work.” // “Not to me. Not if it’s you.” [Pylades and Orestes, Orestes, Anne Carson’s translation.]
“I fear to stain your clothes with blood.” // “Stain them. I don’t care.” [Theseus and Herakles, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson]
“Let go of me.” // “Never.” [Eurydice and Orpheus, either from Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, or Orpheus & Eurydice: A Verse Drama by Edward Eaton.]
like do Neil and Todd even know the tragedies they’re echoing????
#cassie speaks#tragedy#greek tragedy#dead poets society#dps#dps fandom#dps boys#neil perry#todd anderson#orpheus#eurydice#theseus#herakles#orestes#pylades#euripides#anne carson#sarah ruhl#dead poets fandom#todd and neil#neil and todd
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THIS is what happens when you allow the Greeks show their passion for their own history and mythology! Iphigenia (1977) based on the play "Iphigenia en Aulis", an Oscar-nominated film by Michel Cacoyannis and exclusively Greek casting
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And here the phenomenal Irene Papas that we enjoy to "L'Odyssea (1968)" as Penelope and to "The Odyssey (1997)" as Anticlea now giving her all and in her own voice and language as Clytemnestra and her equally phenomenal co-protagonist Kostas Kazakos as Agamemnon have this heart-wrenching performance 😭😭
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The seer PAIN and GUILT in his voice is killing me! "How can I answer such an inhuman question in a humane way?" My heart! 😭 and the way SHE stands her ground against his sadness that comes off as anger! "Your silence is enough" gosh! 😭 the seer pain of a mother and a father here! No Agamemnon laughing manichaly into the night of how how he gets his precious money from the war spoils but a father about to do the most inhumane thing to appease the gods for his hubris and a mother now realizing beyond any shade of doubt and being broken by it!
Dunno guys what kind of movies you expect in the cinema for greek mythology but THIS is the type I expect!
#greek mythology#tagamemnon#homeric poems#the iliad#iphigenia#the sacrifice of iphigenia#iphigenia en aulis#iphigenia 1977#kostas kazakos#irene papas#agamemnon#clytemnestra#agamemnon and clytemnestra#aulis#gathering of the fleet#artemis#Youtube#l'odyssea 1968#the odyssey 1997#the odyssey 1968#greek myth#greek tumblr#greek tragedy#greek art
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An Audience in Athens during the Representation of Agamemnon by Aeschylus — by William Blake Richmond
#william blake richmond#art#classical antiquity#ancient greece#ancient greek#athens#audience#play#the oresteia#aeschylus#greek tragedy#theatre#agamemnon#history#stage#throne#priest#dionysus#performance#tragedies#tradegy#europe#european#architecture
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