#time for my favorite article: kovacs 1987 'where is aegisthus' head?' (classical philology 82.2)
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hm. more characters should get their heads cut off in greek tragedy.
#time for my favorite article: kovacs 1987 'where is aegisthus' head?' (classical philology 82.2)#which argues that (i quote) 'the aegisthean head is attached by means of the aegisthean neck to the aegisthean shoulders'#i suspect that pelias and orpheus had severed heads on stage in lost tragedies#but audiences probably never actually saw medusa's head on stage#*this post is about how tragedies were written for masked performance contexts btw#mine
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