#the oresteia

[mirefireflies]

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

[deranged-italian]

the biggest tragedy about classical education is that people think it's meant to make you become a pretentious snob that quotes plato or seneca unprompted when in truth it's meant to make you a freak who cries and shakes profusely thinking about the fucked up family dynamics from 2000 year old plays

[drowningparty]

Sophocles, Electra (trans. Anne Carson)

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

-oresteia, trans. robert icke

UM OK

[benvoolioo]

oh, so murdering my husband on his return from troy after he sacrificed our daughter to Artemis makes me the bad guy??? god forbid women do anything  🙄

[anghraine]

By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Clytemnestra murdering Agamemnon but cell block tango is playing in the backround

[filmnoirsbian]

Agamemnon by Aeschylus translated by Ted Hughes

[macaulaytwins]

Interview With the Vampire (2022), Orestes tr. by Anne Carson (2009)

[maryoliverdotcom]

finally made a quiz for the classics nerds! which member of the house of atreus are you?

[dykeganseythethird]

florence welch as clytemnestra

[wolfythewitch]

Clytemnestra: walk on this expensive carpet

Agememnon: nuh uh

Clytemnestra: fym nuh uh

[asoftepiloguemylove]

laika and the pain of loss

Matthew Stover Revenge of the Sith // Laika in a flight harness (via wikipedia) // Aeschylus Aeschylus: The Oresteia // Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart // Olessya Turkina Soviet Space Dogs // Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood // Ada Limon Sharks in the Rivers // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // @fateology muttnik // H.D. Loss // Lavinia Greenlaw For the First Dog in Space // Why Laika the Space Dog is All Animals (via lakia magazine)

[drowningparty]

Aeschylus, Agamemnon.

[zoozoocala]

Lucy Frostblade

Dimension 20, FHJY E7 Stress Tested -- Aeschylus, The Oresteia -- Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown -- Richard Siken, Planet of Love -- Qui Nguyen, She Kills Monsters -- Dimension 20 Wiki, Lucy Frostblade

[catofoldstones]

Elia of Dorne and Cassandra of Troy parallels

Daenerys IV, ADWD // The Oresteia- Aeschylus // Tyrion X - A Storm of Swords // Aeneid by Virgil - Book II // Cassandra’s monologue, Agamemnon by Aeschylus //Cassandra by Anthony Fredrick Augustus Sandys - 1864// Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon J Solomon - 1886 // Kassandra by Florence and the Machine