#libation bearers

[soundbuster]

Please, someone, anyone, draw Hamlet and Orestes meeting up and being depressed about their revenge quests over some coffee.

The stories they can tell each other.

Hamlet: My uncle poisoned by father.

Orestes: Same, but it was my mother who did it.

Hamlet: What?

Orestes: With an axe after throwing a net at him as he bathed.

Hamlet:...

Orestes:...

Hamlet: Alright, I got nothing. Drinks on me.

[summerscaries]

Putting my text post hands to classical use

✨main characters in my working thesis on Greek tragedy: there’s a murder in the oikos✨

(pt2)

[practicalgothicism]

hi today on my insane literary and dramaturgical takes: hamlet is the same as elektra

THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME

if only hamlet had brought libations perhaps he would have recieved the guidance he so desperately needed….

he cannot not grieve, he refuses to remove his mourning vestments, he holds the rage and the grief that none else do for a murder unjustly committed and for the sake of a man who stole the throne

a man who shares his mothers bed a stained bed a bed made red by betrayal

betray of the king of his father and he cannot not grieve

[fionns-meadow]

i love being autistic at the autism school what do you mean my greek tutor let me write a paper comparing the Libation Bearers (Χοηφόροι my beloved ancient greek 🫶) and The Terror

[garland-on-thy-brow]

So I was thinking about how this is very Antony's funeral speech: the body is substituted by a piece of clothing, a (theatrical) device.

And then there are also the dogs of war.

[All quotes are from Libation Bearers trans. Sarah Ruden.]

[evilios]

— Aeshylus, Libation Bearers (trans. by R. Fagles)

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

watch the confrontation between Clytemnestra and Orestes (52:22-57:17) in the 1983 production of the Libation Bearers in the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus. Mommy Issues play of all time. utterly obsessed with the actor who plays Orestes's performance and delivery of his grievances in this confrontation. The translation is a little weird with the rhyming and alliteration BUT it really creates an interesting auditory vibe to it.

[desscaras-world]

robert icke, oresteia