#oresteia

[pelideswhore]

i support clytemnestra killing agamemnon and i also support orestes/electra killing clytemnestra. yes those things can and do coexist.

[mothmanismymainman]

the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)

achilles:

patroclus:

helen:

diomedes:

hector:

odysseus:

andromache:

calchas:

paris:

bonus! clytemnestra:

[petaltexturedskies]

Aiskhylos, An Oresteia (tr. by Anne Carson)

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

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

[ciceroniantrash]

Anne Carson’s Kassandra speaks shitpost

[catilinas]

btw

[dionysism]

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

[ditoob]

why did nobody tell me the Oresteia was so good Orestes is slowly becoming one of my faves

[jondrettegirls]

[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)

[erudities]

[apollon-quotes]

"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

[hermesmoly]

Children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra as Melodrama songs:

Iphigenia - Writer in the Dark ("Did my best to exist just for you / Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart / I am my mother's child / I'll love you 'til my breathing stops / I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me”)

Electra - Liability ("All that a stranger would see / Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek / They say, "You're a little much for me / You're a liability / The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy / 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore, and then they are bored of me")

Orestes - Sober II ("You asked if I was feeling it, I'm psycho high / Know you won't remember in the morning when I speak my mind / And the terror and the horror / God, I wonder why we bother / All the glamour and the trauma / and the fucking melodrama")

Chrysothemis - Hard Feelings/Loveless (“Please, could you be tender? And I will sit close to you / I care for myself the way I used to care about you / 'Til I don't need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave / Bet you wanna rip my heart out / Well, guess what? I'd like that.")

+

Pylades - The Lourve ("I am your sweetheart psychopathic crush / Drink up your movements, still I can't get enough / Blow all my friendships / To sit in hell with you / Okay I know that you are not my type (still I fall) / I'm just the sucker who let you fill her mind")

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[Agamemnon trans. Anne Carson | Julius Caesar.]

Everything can be about Cassius if you are me.

[gwydpolls]

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[alexanderpearce]

agamemnon of oresteia, dir. peter hall, trans. tony harrison, 1983

[catilinas]

normal oresteiabookclub experience 👍