#lesbiancassius

[orpheuslament]

top 5 organs go

heart, lungs, liver, stomach, & brain. i guess

[chthonic-cassandra]

If I may ask, what is your pet obscure Ibsen play?

Emperor and Galilean!

[tauindi]

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JUNE!!<3 you're literally a classics genius to me and THE #1 Paris (1990) stan. and honestly you're one of the best writers i know i love reading your stuff and feel so so lucky that i get to.

[ardenrosegarden]

I'm watching The Lion in Winter with friends and it felt like you should know.

Hell yeah! I hope you enjoy the unwell family members making their issues everyone elses' problems <3

[ardenrosegarden]

mustard cider. you rock (<geology joke)

aaaa ditto back to you 💛🪨🤎

[chthonic-cassandra]

Also for the bookshelf - your favourite (or a favourite) classical tragedy and where its copies are. from the answers to this ask I’m envying your well-stocked bookshelf…

This is a cunning attempt to get me to choose a favorite tragedy! But I'll bite.

I have seven copies of the Troades and six copies of the Ion. Troades: two in Greek (one is a Loeb, the other is the Barlow), then the English translations I have are Hamilton, Vellacott, Lattimore (twice) and Murray. Ion: one in Greek (Owen), then for English translations I have H.D., Vellacott, Willetts (twice) and Potter. They are shelved with the rest of my Euripides.

My book collection is a great joy in my life and a large part of the fun of doing this is getting to glory in that! But I hope it's not too envy-inducing or too much of a show-off. I think the particularities of my living situations from early adulthood through now have made it rather easier for me to accumulate and maintain a substantial book collection (I wasn't ever moving long distances, or moving in and out dorm rooms), for which I am grateful.

[chthonic-cassandra]

For the bookshelf - The Oresteia, in any variation?

Yes! Do I ever!

I own each of the plays separately in Greek (Raeburn & Thomas Agamemnon, Garvie Choephori, Sommerstein Eumenides) and then six copies of the whole in English - two very old copies of the Morsehead translation (one included in Oates and O'Neil's Collected Greek Drama which is just too cool to get rid of even though I really don't need it), two copies of the Fagles, one of the Ted Hughes, and one of the Peter Meineck. They're shelved in between my Thucydides and my other Aeschylus.

ETA: wait, I got this wrong - I also have the Lattimore translations of Agamemnon and Eumenides, and the MacNeice Agamemnon. They are both included in mixed tragedy collections, so they come at the end of the tragedy section, in between Euripides and Aristophanes. Collected Greek Drama is in between Simon Critchley's Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us which was a gift that I keep thinking about getting rid of, and David Wiles' Greek Theatre Performance.

[chthonic-cassandra]

I hear you're looking for fic requests...[hold music plays as I scroll through your ao3]...maybe do you have any thoughts on Iphigenia? I adore your one work about her very much.

also, semi-unrelated, wondering if you have anything to say about Measure for Measure? don't know if you've read it but you've read Titus and they feel equally niche. Anyway I think the vampire potential is strong with that play, and as vampire mutual, I thought that might appeal. [I wrote some 'what if Isabella got vamp'd at the end' stuff ages ago, I should dredge it up.]

Oh, do I ever have things to say about Measure for Measure! Twisting, vinegar-sour play with its language all turning in on itself like streets with no exits. It's a play I love very much, despite-because of its considerable structural flaws, and I do especially love beloved Isabella, with her extremity and abnegation-which-is-pride and her sharp rhetoric that winds itself into such psychosexual twists. I have never thought about vampire potential there, but I will ponder.

I have read some good Measure fic in my time (like this and this, and I want to know everything there is to know about your vampire Isabella). I have strong opinions about it myself, that maybe I will write in fic, but it would be ugly and uncomfortable because one of the things I believe most strongly about Measure is that Angelo and Isabella are in fact the only ones in the play who actually get each other, who actually are speaking the same language, and the fact that the only way that language can be enacted is through violence is the horror and the horrific comedy of it.

I also have things to say about Iphigenia. Some of them are (apparently, according to be my subconscious) horror movie Iphigenia Among the Taurians. And some of them are purely choreographic. But I am very touched that you like my little fic about her! Thank you so much for letting me know.

(also: touched and delighted to be the vampire mutual)