[EURYDIKE DOES NOT EXIT] @finelythreadedsky - Tumblr Blog

*slaps skene of the theatre of dionysus* this bad boy can fit so much fucking ghosts in it

#i say 'much' because lets face it ghosts arent a countable quantity #the ghost of deianeira walks into the house through the ghost of megara #and as ive said during the oresteia all the gods and ghosts are hanging out up on the roof together #DEATH MASKS THEATRE MASKS ROMANS GO OFF #perform the agamemnon with the actor wearing a replica of that schliemann gold mask with the handlebar mustache #but also. antigone with polynices just. there. no lines. he just sits there.#i come back to this idea like clockwork every few months #its still good though #limited to three speaking actors onstage? ADD NONSPEAKING DEAD PEOPLE #mine

my to-do list as i work on getting this chapter drafted includes such fun items as "consider human mortality and the finality of death" and "put Clytemnestra's not-ghost/not-body in section i"

#corpse chapter :/#also: 'do NOT think about electra's urn. don't do it.'#mine

ilions-end

as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

#rip🫡#the oscillation between the threat of being eaten and the threat of eating something wrong(ly) or for too long!!!#and at the middle the dead who feed on blood but not his blood

exitwound

Claude Monet, Three Poplar Trees, Autumn Effect, 1891

lukosei

Apollo for one of my classes. Largely informed by his hymn + shelmerdine footnotes 🙏

prose-n-scripts

literally ur fine dude get up

kuttithevangu

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

#ok listen. i watched the recent bbc/canal+ marie antoinette show.#hilariously unsubtle apologia #much of which it attempts to do via precisely this.

harminuya

Armenian Rug, dated 1887.

family members texting me that they have tickets to the odyssey movie and asking if i have plans to go see it and the thing is. i just don't really want to.

#you are NOT going to get me in a movie theater for one hundred and seventy three minutes plus previews #i think i've seen a single-digit number of movies in theaters since covid first hit. and was dragged to most of those by family #mine