#polynices

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who pull each other into death, this is about brothers who ask for promises that will only lead to disaster, this is about brothers who lay a claim and say, you can either have both of us or neither of us, this is about brothers who are a curse to each other, this is about brothers who drag their brothers straight into tragedy with them.

After Abel (Dante Émile) || Life of Caius Gracchus (Plutarch) || Thebaid Commentary (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail of Cain Killing Abel (Niccolò Tornioli), Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || A Brother Named Gethsemane (Natalie Diaz) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Succession 4 x 10 || Thebaid Book VIII (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Killing Flies (Michael Dickman) || detail from Orestes and Electra || In Praise of the Lesser Known Siblings of Mythology (Philip Womack) || Libation Bearers (Aeschylus, trans. S Ruden) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || detail of Eteocles and Polynices (mural in François Tomb from Vulci) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides, trans. J Morwood) || After Abel (Dante Émile)

[ilions-end]

guys against thebes can be found in sizes large, medium and small

i.e. hippomedon and polynices play a game of polis while tydeus takes a nap (he's not allowed to play board games anymore after what happened last time)

[transbutchblues]

obsessively thinking about antigone tonight. queer antigone / antigone as a product of incest displaying incestuous undertones&themes herself / married through death antigone (anouilh’s antigone, who wanted to have her first time with hemon the evening before she goes to bury her brother, who wanted to die not-a-virgin and yet not-a-wife but who didn’t, because they fought instead) / antigone who only knows how to live for oedipus / antigone who only knows how to die for her brothers / antigone who is nothing but her love for her family / antigone who leaves ismene behind / antigone who knows her brothers have been cursed by her father but still goes back to thebes, because she has to / antigone who knows creon will remove the dirt she puts on polyneikes’ body, but still puts it there, because she has to / antigone ready to die, born to die / antigone already dead from the beginning, her fate sealed long ago / antigone leaving thebes as a child knowing she will only come back to die.

[antigonesgrave]

Soo fascinated by the fact that Antigone (and friends) never outright say whether or not they think Polynices is a traitor.

Creon says it happily. And Antigone mentions it in the beginning(“with the contempt we reserve for traitors”) but every other time, she skirts around the question. She won’t say outright whether he is or not. And she won’t say if it matters. Because it doesn’t! Traitor or not, he is her brother. Haemon does the same. Even Ismene doesn’t outright say that she thinks Polynices is a traitor

[cygniavenue]

Do you have a favorite moment or character in Thebaid by statius???

Could you draw them if you don't mind :3

uhm erm hmm uhh. them

the grils r fightinggggg

[sculppp]

Joseph Abel (1764–1818)

Antigone Weeping over Her Brother’s Body , detail.

[saradaism]

“Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices”, Henry Fuseli, 1786

[siblingshowdown]

Sibling Showdown Round 1 Bracket D1

Image credit: The Oath of Fëanor by Jenny Dolfen (goldseven.de) used with permission, also showing Fëanor

Antigone by Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Eteocles not pictured

[iphisesque]

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (Johnston) / Sophocles, Antigone (Johnston)

[theriverpointace]

polynices, stabbed and dying: best two out of three?

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who are trying to resurrect their brothers, this is about brothers who mourn, this is about brothers who drag the body of their dead brother around and plead, wait for me! don't go where I can't follow!

Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Interview with HuffPost) || Antigonick (Anne Carson) || detail from Antigone au chevet de Polynice (Benjamin-Constant) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Life of Cato Minor (Plutarch) || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || detail from Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures (Angelica Kauffmann) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || Elektra (Sophokles, trans. Anne Carson) || Thebaid Book IX (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail from Orestes and Elektra || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Crassus (Plutarch) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || The Phoenician Women (Euripides, trans. P Burian & B Swann) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || detail from Antigone Sentenced to Death by Creon (Giuseppe Diotti) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic (F K Drogula) || App. BC 5.14.143 || Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke)

[ilions-end]

The lament for Eteocles and Polynices illustrated by John Flaxman. From The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes.

With what a ruthless and destructive rage The Furies hurl their vengeful shafts around And desolate the house of Oedipus!

[transbutchblues]

concept : staging oedipus at colonus then antigone and the same actor plays polyneikes, ismene and haimon.

[mhsdatgo]

Antigone holds me in an unironically tight chokehold...

[mythological-art]

Antigone Imploring Oedipus to Lift his Curse from Polynices

Artist: Michel Lambert (French, 1748-1796)

"Antigone imploring Oedipus to lift his curse from Polynices" refers to a scene depicted in art, particularly in paintings by Michel Lambert, where Antigone, a character from Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," is pleading with her father Oedipus to withdraw a devastating curse he has placed upon her brother, Polynices; essentially begging him to show mercy and not condemn Polynices to a tragic fate.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Joseph Abel - Antigone kneeling next to the body of her brother Polynices, 1805.