#eumenides and electra next

[blueberry-ink-93]

CHOEPHOROI - LIBATION BEARERS

ngl i was operating on half a braincell today (and somehow managed to read 3 plays? the math aint mathin but whatever) so forgib me

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i JUST started ant i want to cry for my girl already

this is as i understand it her first time at her fathers grave? in any case she asks the chorus of trojan women for help (if i think about it too hard ill weep) and asdlfktirdl shes so helpless here it kills me

persephone <3 and the cthonic dieties make an appearance! namely hermes lol but still. love the imagery all the same

i adore supplications the language is so beautiful to me

(mother) earth is called to several times and at first i was like gaia??? and then i was like no they mean agamemnon being buried and then later i was like gaia???? still not sure who was meant lol

foreshadowing (to me) :3

the third storm as mentioned in agamemnon

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ready ur handkerchiefs

nurse of orestes mourning her son & electras line nearly killed me

love love love that orestes is said to have a heart akin to the hero perseus! athena & hermes feature in the plays so its extra neat lol

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this bitch?? the chorus speaks of clytemnestras glee at the news

ur third eye wont fucking save u from whats coming. dipshit

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back to our regularly scheduled programming: crying over orestes

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funniest part by far is electra finding a lock of hair belonging to orestes and recognising it (i kid u not) and tracing his footsteps and all of it but when she sees him shes like who tf is u

lskdkdjfgfkd

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im going to kill clytemnestra myself

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ew ew ew

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get her ass orestes

third storm!!

ft. apollo the destroyer

the furies :D

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kindred counter: 6

[exit KINDRED]

[athensandspartaadventures]

Athens and Sparta Adventures: Chapter 9: Libation Bearers pg. 2

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Quick Ref:

The Libation Bearers: The second play in Aeschylus' Oresteia, which describes the fallout in the house of Atreus after Clytemnestra's murder of Agamemnon. Siblings Electra and Orestes reunite and plot vengeance against their mother, fearing that she will doom them to slavery or death.

The Eumenides: The third and final play in the Oresteia, which follows Orestes being chased by the Furies after murdering his mother Clytemnestra. Orestes eventually flees to Athens, where he stands trial. The quotes on this page are from the last lines of the play, when the Furies are welcomed into Athens to be worshipped as the Eumenides, or the "Kindly Ones".

Comments:

Don't worry, it was all a dream! Say, now that I think of it, I keep torturing characters with scary dreams of Athens. Is it foreshadowing? I guess yes and no...

There's also a reference here to a conversation Corinth had with Persia in Chapter 7 as well.

[finelythreadedsky]

hmm actually what if i wrote my tragedy seminar paper about what happens to iphigenia’s body??? someone in class suggested that the ‘not to be eaten’ part might imply she’s a holokaustos, a wholly burnt offering, leaving no body or grave for clytemnestra to mourn

and for dramatic purposes i’ve been wanting her body (or ashes, whatever) to be sitting unburied at argos until clytemnestra gets the revenge/closure that is a precondition for burial (the tapestry!!! is!!! her!!! shroud!!!), framing the play as her funeral rites and agamemnon as the sacrifice to accompany them... and setting up iphigenia’s soul prior to the avenging of her death as just as restless and not-at-peace and unable-to-sleep as clytemnestra’s ghost is in the eumenides? good

but then given the prominence of agamemnon’s physical grave in the choephoroi actually what would it mean to give clytemnestra a place to mourn parallel to where electra and orestes mourn and to set her grief up as the same as theirs! to place an altar to her soul next to the altar to apollo! to put next to cassandra, as she prays to apollo, a reminder that he does not help!

and then also the implications of the tantalid family hereditary child-eating. there’s that.

[fabby-book-blog]

Books read in 2018

I have graduated with my master’s degree! I shall be dedicating summer 2019 to reading all the unread books I have purchased with the new free time that I have. Starting next Monday! (May 20, 2019). 

( Half of these books were assigned for class; the other half for my own pleasure)

Plan will be to start reading a new book on Mondays and post on Sundays (latest). If possible. I will also be attempting to break into my graphic novel collection which has been ignored for way too long. Comic books will have their own separate posts and won’t have a tight schedule like the novels. 

My reading preferences are pretty extensive, so don’t be expecting me to stick to a single genre or author (unless I become obsessed with a certain one for a while [Greek mythology re-imaginings really tickle my fancy recently]). 

The challenge is as follows:

Read a book a week

Make a weekly post about the book of the week

...Yeah pretty simple. Below the cut are the list of books from my 2018 reading. 

*All fiction novels except where noted:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - unknown (medieval romance)

The Oresteia - Aeschylus (Greek tragedy - trilogy [Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides])

The Killers - George Lippard

The Submission - Amy Waldman

The Story of a Brief Marriage - Anuk Arudpragasam 

Love Marriage - V.V. Ganeshananthan 

Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie

The Watch - Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Black Klansman (movie title BlackKklansman) - Ron Stallworth (memoir)

A Sucky Love Story - Brittani Louise Taylor (memoir)

5 to 1 - Holly Bodger

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Rage of Achilles - Terrence Hawkins

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Syndrome E - Franck Thilliez

Irene, Alex, and Camille - all by Pierre Lemaitre 

Now You See Me - Sharon Bolton

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski 

Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer (medieval epic poem)

*not pictured:

Othello - William Shakespeare (drama)

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Donan Coyle 

Mourning Becomes Electra and Long Day’s Journey into Night -  Eugene O’Neill (drama)