Anyone criticizing ancient literature "It has no humor" "It's boring" PLEASE READ ANTIGONE I BEG YOU. I got emotional over it
Obligatory "fuck creon all my homies hate creon" and "listen to the seer especially if it's TIRESIAS"
I want your opinion on Antigone and Haemon. Also, do you know what happened to Megareus? And who the son of Dryas is mentioned in lines 955-965, Cleopatra daughter of Boreas, and the sons of Phineus? (I could Google this yeah, but I want to talk to you, you give really good explanations :3)
Lol they haven't read anything then because honestly Homer has me rolling with laughter yet alone people like Aristophanes and all so yeah there is comedic moments everywhere especially in tragedies the comedic moments that offer that tiny bit of catharsis from the plot for example forever hilarious Menelaus who had the bright idea to answer to Hecuba that warned him not to take Helen to the ship with him;
💬 18 🔁 35 ❤️ 173 · Ladies and Gentlemen I give you dumpass Menelaus from Euripides! · Hecuba: Don't let her in the same boat as you! Mene
like...out of nowhere! XD
My my many questions hahaha
I am not sure what opinion you want me to give you in regards to the play. Like them as a couple or as personalities? As a couple they clearly are devoted to each other and they love each other deeply. So any clarifications would be precious to me hehe
Megareus is the brother of Haemon son of Eurydice and Creon. In the previous clash against the attackers of Thebes he was advised against joining the battle by Creon but Megareus didn't want to appear as a coward so he rushed to battle. In Aeschylus's play "Seven Against Thebes" he is carried away and in his inexperience he is killed in the battle against Eteoclus (although his name is not always confirmed by every source). Either way in the play "Antigone" we hear about Megareus because Eurydice commits suicide once she hears about Haemon's own suicide given that she lost both of her sons in such a way
Lycurgus, son of Dryas was a mythical king of Edones of Thrace. In that portion we hear the Stasimon aka a portion of singing or speaking where the chorus for instance will be speaking on similar examples of sufferers that suffer similar fate as the one in question (in this case Antigone and her fate of being locked in a cave to die). So they mention several examples of people die or getting locked up in similar manners (for example mentioned Danae and her imprisonment) Lycurgus according to the version we speak in Antigone, was mocking and preventing the bacchic rites of Dionysus and even provoking the Muses so Dionysus Other versions speak how he went even further in his hubris and even expelled the god or attacked him when he was still a child, who found shelter to the care of Thetis and much more. So Dionysus punishes him with madness in one version he made him think that he was cutting off a vine while in reality he had pulled the hands of his son out or killed his offspring and wife or even chopped his own feet off In Antigone we hear that he was imprisoned in a cave where he slowly starts succumbing to his madness
This example might as well be what Antigone fears will become of her hence deciding to quickly end her own life in her own tomb-cell so that when Creon even considers his punishment to her might be too much it is too late. (His story is already appearing in the Iliad by the way so it is fairly old. In Stesichorus fragment we even hear that the amphora that was made by Hephaestus that was given to Thetis was a gift of Dionysus because of her help in that situation when he was pursued. That same amphora became the urn hosting the bones of Achilles and Patroclus. Hyginus too seems to reference the suicide by madness committed by Lycurgus)
Cleopatra was the first wife of Phineus and sister to the twins Zetes and Calais (the two Argonauts). She had two sons with him whose names differ on the source. However it seems that the second wife of Phineus accused her two stepsons so Phineus either blinds them himself or allows his wife to do it or even kill them. For his crime Phineus was blinded too. We know Phineus of Thrace in Argonautica being haunted by the harpies who rush and eat his food or make it rot or not allow him to bathe so Phineus is condemned to starvation and filth until his two ex brothers-in-law arrive with the Argonauts and chase the harpies away (the harpies in return are saved by Iris their sister, who advises the twins to stop their pursue)
