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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')

unicorngunter

Hightowers!

copycatvagabond

some Odyssey bumper stickers for you

yenvengerberg

Linked Closely, arm in arm, Rhaenyra and Alicent make their way into the Red Keep's entrance hall, its wide stairway climbing up and up into the upper reaches of the castle. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Deleted Scene

smithsonianlibrariesarchives

An unspecified example of a tapestry painting for home decoration included in a J. F. Douthitt American Tapestry and Decorative Company advertisement from Intelligence v.7:no.1 (1897). The advertisement states "2000 tapestry paintings to choose from, 38 artists employed, including gold medalists of the Paris Salon." Full text here.

postarcadian

bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts

Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Aeneid (Vergil)

Antigone (Sophocles)

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Medea (Euripides)

The Bacchae (Euripides)

Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)

Thebaid (Statius)

Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)

Voting ended onJul 26

orpheuslament

oh sister and daughter of Oidipous, who can be innocent in dealing with you there was never a blank slate we were always already anxious about you perhaps you know the Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone, I take it as the task of the translator to forbid that you should ever lose your screams

— Antigonick, Anne Carson

ashleysjohnson

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S01E08 - "The Lord of the Tides" S03E04 - "Tumbleton"

#ok lesbians #rhaenicent #and she did return as promised #they both did

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Alicent remains a strange custodian of Rhaenyra's conscience

(excerpt from this Emma D'arcy's interview)

thatwomanlovingpotatofromtwitter

Old money Rhaenyra Targaryen and her father's wife, Alicent.

based on a fic by crewlin

imacone

"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."

-Our Wives Under the Sea

wandas-darling

one conversation with alicent and she is looking liberated, looking up at the gods as if thanking them for her. smiling while thinking of her. the yearning on her face. ignoring everything that is being said to her because alicent risked her life for her, alicent is now fighting for her and thats all she can focus on.

saltoncity

can we get anne carson on hot ones

playwrongs

ANNE CARSON: The Hot Ones could be the name of a tragedy. Imagine that chorus. Chewing on spiced wings so their tears streamed down the masks and fell to the ground. If a tragic actor was crying from eating hot wings how would you know? The mask doesn't tell you. Only if he cried OTOTOTOI POPOI DA but that is his text. No dividing what is pain from what is pain. According to Aulus Gellius, the actor Polus used the urn that held his son's bones and ashes onstage. He was using grief to play grief. It does away with the problem of feigning. You can't feign spice either. Either your eyes water and you retch or you don't.

SEAN EVANS: So, are you gonna take a bite, or...?