#hippolytos

[lostlibrarycard]

Euripides, Hippolytos, tr. by Anne Carson

[theoptia]

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

Text ID: Is it a god inside you, girl?

[softservewidow]

Is hippolytos the worlds first victim of acephobia (killed by aphrodite for not fucking his step mom) ?

[nyktipolos]

PHAIDRA: What is this thing they call falling in love? NURSE: Something absolutely sweet and absolutely bitter at the same time.

Euripides. "Hippolytos", trans. Anne Carson. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides. New York Review of Books, 2006.

[darkacademiaposts]

"She... longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you, girl?"

- Euripides, from Hippolytos, Grief Lessons: Four Plays tr. Anne Carson

[violentdevotion]

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

[dwellordream]

PHAIDRA There are two kinds of shame. One is harmless, the other kills a house. If right action were ever clear, these two things wouldn’t have the same name. So much for my views. No love-charm can change them. But I’ll tell you the path my reasoning took. When desire first wounded me I considered how best to bear it. I began with silence and secrecy—there’s no trusting the tongue, it loves to punish others and draw disaster on itself. Second, I tried to suppress my mad feelings. That didn’t work. You can’t suppress Aphrodite. So third, my plan is to die.

Anne Carson, Hippolytos

[wehavewords]

“Bitter the love by which I’m beaten.”

Euripedes, Hippolytos; tr. Anne Carson