clytemnestra apologist

anything vaugely related to greek mythology goes here. historical, adaptation, etc. i have no standards.

[menelaiad]

Odysseus illustrated by Belhoula Amir

[orpheuslament]

descriptions of dionysos in the bakkhai (tr. anne carson) that make me lose my mind a little

[cor-ardens-archive]

Anne Carson

[elucubrare]

Helen views the eidolon 

“Show me,” she said, “show me the image  that caused pains incalcuable  for all the Achaeans, and such woe.”  And so they brought it to her, a shape  of mist and cloud and vapor, with hair  that shone like ice in the winter sun  and eyes like a foggy day.  Helen, face to face with her image, could not recognize herself. 

[berensreverie]

You,

You,

I pity.

[Exit KASSANDRA]

[i-spilled-my-soup]

unlucky warrior

[chotomy]

i who even before watched over you and your steep city

[ohevoyev]

in which asterion, the minotaur, and theseus, the hero, are given back their humanity

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek necklace with the “Heracles knot”.  Artist unknown; ca. 230-210 BCE.  From Taras/Tarentum (modern-day Taranto, south Italy); now in the Altes Museum, Berlin.

[filmnoirsbian]

Dreams of Clytemnestra by Dacia Maraini

[fuckindiva]

Clytemnestra: says literally anything ever

Me:

[menelaiad]

odysseus has agamemnon so freaking whipped

[bluebeardsbride-deactivated2021]

“Macaria, Polyxena, Iphigenia. They are freed from their fathers in a moment when their fathers condemn them to immolation; they turn to their own use the freedom of choice that characterized the kyrios, by taking over the sacrifice imposed on them and turning it into their death, a death that is fully their own.”

— Nicole Loraux, Tragic ways of killing a woman

[chotomy]

apollo to hektor: nooo don't die ur so sexy aha

i literally posted this on twitter the other day i--

[chotomy]

stop reading my mind you guys this isn’t funny anymore

[finelythreadedsky]

there really is an incredible intimacy in killing in greek tragedy. it’s so often the people who are closest to each other, the people who love each other most, who kill each other. of course agamemnon kills his daughter, his oldest child, and is killed by his wife and then his son kills his mother as she faces him and bares the breast that suckled him. megara and her children die at the hands of her husband heracles who then in turn is killed by his wife deianira. agave and medea kill their sons with their own hands. theseus condemns his son to die and creon his niece. and so many die at the most familiar hands of all, their own, antigone and haemon and eurydice and deianira and jocasta and phaedra and ajax.

[connabeth]

“eurydice, you won’t believe this—”

[olreid]

emily wilson, introduction to the odyssey