[theoptia]

Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson

Text ID: MEGARA: You love the light so much? / AMPHIYRYON: I do, I love its hopes.

[symeonae]

Mark Edmundson, from Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

[symeonae]

The Book of Skin, Steven Connor

[symeonae]

The Hunger Artists, Maud Ellmann

[symeonae]

To see the end in the beginning of everything

[symeonae]

John Keats, Endymion

[symeonae]

Alfred Edward Housman, Into my heart an air that kills, A Shropshire Lad.

[symeonae]

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

[symeonae]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[symeonae]

Orestes, Euripides (tr. Anne Carson).

[symeonae]

Elektra, Sophocles

[symeonae]

Dreams of Clytemnestra, Dacia Maraini

[symeonae]

Dreams of Clytemnestra, Dacia Maraini

[caorthainn]

Agamemnon, translated by Anne Carson

[virgin-martyr]

Anne Carson, excerpt from “Elektra” from An Oresteia by Sophocles

[mournfulroses]

“Electra-Orestes,” by Hilda Doolittle

[symeonae]

Elektra, Sophocles (tr. Robert Brigg)