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i support clytemnestra killing agamemnon and i also support orestes/electra killing clytemnestra. yes those things can and do coexist.
#greek mythology#greek myth#clytemnestra#orestes#electra#ancient greece#mythology#mythos#greek mythos#greek myth meme#iliad#greek myth memes#sophocles#oresteia#electra and orestes#myth#trojan war
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the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)
achilles:
patroclus:
helen:
diomedes:
hector:
odysseus:
andromache:
calchas:
paris:
bonus! clytemnestra:
#achilles#patroclus#patrochilles#odysseus#hector of troy#andromache#helen of troy#helen of sparta#clytemnestra#tagamemnon#iliad#odyssey#oresteia#diomedes#paris#calchas#greek literature#greek myth memes
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Aiskhylos, An Oresteia (tr. by Anne Carson)
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Anne Carson’s Kassandra speaks shitpost
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house of atreus i love you and your apples rotten right to the core from all the things passed down from all the apples coming before
#has someone used this lyric for them yet#certainly so right#house of atreus#tagamemnon#orestes#electra#iphigenia#agamemnon#clytemnestra#chrysothemis#greek mythology#greek mythos#oresteia
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why did nobody tell me the Oresteia was so good Orestes is slowly becoming one of my faves
#greek mythology#tagamemnon#trojan war#orestes#the oresteia#oresteia#aeschylus#oresteia art coming one day
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[Image Description: 4 quotes from plays and 1 painting. The quotes read as follows, 1: “Someone will see to you! The evil you are is the evil you get.” 2: “Klytemnestra: ‘If you kill me, you kill yourself. Orestes—‘ / Orestes: ‘You did wrong. Now you suffer wrong.’” 3: “He filled this house like a mixing bowl to the brim with evils, now he has drunk it down.” 4: “Menelaos: ‘No, don’t do it!’ / Orestes: ‘Oh, be quiet. Endure what you deserve.’” The painting is of King Agamemnon, murdered in his bath, with a net embroidered over him in red. End description.]
THE EVIL YOU ARE | Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Oresteia - Aeschylus (Tr. Robert Icke) | Agammemnon - Aeschylus (Tr. Anne Carson) | Orestes - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)
#on my own.#on my art.#idk if i shld credit myself for the art in the lil caption or not. i dont have a title for it yet lmao#quotes#euripides#aeschylus#robert icke#anne carson#so much translated by anne carson.. her translations slap i mean all of tumblr knows it its fine#oresteia#house of atreus#herakles#orestes#menelaos#agamemnon#klytemnestra#orestes&klytemnestra
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btw
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No one talks about Helen being Iphigenia’s aunt.
Her niece was murdered so her husband and brother-in-law (plus their armies and others) could go “save her”. Her sister lost her daughter so her husband could get his brother’s wife back.
Her Iphigenia, with her black hair and sweet smile, who would always smile when she saw her.
Her Iphigenia, her first niece, the oldest of her sister’s children, who was some years older than her own daughter and who she thought would grow up together.
Oh the guilt the anger
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"First, in this prayer of mine, I give the place of highest honor among the gods to the first prophet, Earth; and after her to Themis, for she was the second to take this oracular seat of her mother, as legend tells.
And in the third allotment, with Themis’ consent and not by force, another Titan, child of Earth, Phoebe, took her seat here. She gave it as a birthday gift to Phoebus, who has his name from Phoebe.
Leaving the lakeband ridge of Delos, he landed on Pallas’ ship-frequented shores, and came to this region and the dwelling places on Parnassus. The children of Hephaistos, road-builders taming the wildness of the untamed land, escorted him with mighty reverence.
And at his arrival, the people and Delphus, helmsman and lord of this land, made a great celebration for him. Zeus inspired his heart with prophetic skill and established him as the fourth prophet on this throne; but Loxias is the spokesman of Zeus, his father.”
- Aeschylus, Oresteia
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[Agamemnon trans. Anne Carson | Julius Caesar.]
Everything can be about Cassius if you are me.
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Time Travel Question : Assorted Performances I
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#Time Travel#Drama History#Ancient Athens#Ancient Greece#Hegelochus#Euripides#Orestes#Aristophanes#Dionysian Festival#Aeschylus#Lost Literature#Ancient Greek Literature#Oresteia#Homer#Classical Athens#Music History#Ancient World#Enheduanna#Ur#Sumerians#Ancient Egypt#Sappho#Epidaurus
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agamemnon of oresteia, dir. peter hall, trans. tony harrison, 1983
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I have no explanation for this, I began writing a fanfiction where Daisuke gets isekai-d to the Oresteia after dying and falls in love with Orestes. It started as a joke but it's not a joke anymore. I'm so sorry. Title of the fic is "I got axed in the head and ended up helping the pretty Prince of Argos avenge his father!?"
#tagamemnon#orestes#oresteia#mouthwashing#mouthwashing spoilers#daisuke mouthwashing#i am so so sorry
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greek tragedy (mostly familicide bc that's my thesis) as textposts again bc i can't stop myself
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Kreusa and Ion - Ion // Orestes - Oresteia
Alkestis - Alkestis // Iphigeneia - Iphigeneia in Aulis
Herakles/Ajax/Oedipus - Herakles/Ajax/Oedipus Tyrannus // Klytaimnestra - Agamemnon
#tagamemnon#ion#oresteia#alcestis#iphigenia#heracles#ajax#oedipus#clytemnestra#agamemnon#sophocles#euripides#aeschylus
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Oresteia by Robert Icke | The Aeneid by Vergil (Tr. Shadi Bartsch) | It’s a Quality of the Gods by Suniti Namjoshi
#god as parent etc etc#i told u guys i was gonna remake my quote post from literally j the other day#on my own.#quotes#aeneid#oresteia#the aeneid#the oresteia#elektea#agamemnon#aeneas#vergil#quoteblr
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