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If the work of burial in part helps survivors move on, then the fact that this unburied corpse keeps turning up like a bad penny may be a way of showing how in the absence of proper burial, survivors cannot move on. The dead body’s return in bits and pieces to the city suggests also that Creon’s problem is not (just) his overzealousness but, again recalling a classic critique of democracy, his ineffectiveness. Notwithstanding his power as ruler, he simply cannot keep Polynices out of the city. Similarly, Antigone resists confinement within the household. In other words, the descendants of Oedipus can neither be kept out nor in.

Antigone, Interrupted — Bonnie Honig

#forgot to post this when i read it a few months ago #antigone #polyneikes #kreon #i pray the tomb is shut forever #reading #tagamemnon #iphis.txt

guys against thebes can be found in sizes large, medium and small

i.e. hippomedon and polynices play a game of polis while tydeus takes a nap (he's not allowed to play board games anymore after what happened last time)

#hippomedon is described as giant while tydeus is famously short. i assume polynices is average bc no one ever mentions his height #also everyone's used to polynices and tydeus being weird and intense and clingy with each other. just another day in camp #this was inspired by every lovely piece of ancient greek pottery depicting ajax and achilles playing games #the thebaid #theban cycle #epic cycle #seven against thebes #tydeus #hippomedon #polynices #polyneices #polyneikes #tagamemnon #my art #slettart #greek mythology

obsessively thinking about antigone tonight. queer antigone / antigone as a product of incest displaying incestuous undertones&themes herself / married through death antigone (anouilh’s antigone, who wanted to have her first time with hemon the evening before she goes to bury her brother, who wanted to die not-a-virgin and yet not-a-wife but who didn’t, because they fought instead) / antigone who only knows how to live for oedipus / antigone who only knows how to die for her brothers / antigone who is nothing but her love for her family / antigone who leaves ismene behind / antigone who knows her brothers have been cursed by her father but still goes back to thebes, because she has to / antigone who knows creon will remove the dirt she puts on polyneikes’ body, but still puts it there, because she has to / antigone ready to die, born to die / antigone already dead from the beginning, her fate sealed long ago / antigone leaving thebes as a child knowing she will only come back to die.

#antigone #it’s probably my favorite tragedy #which says a lot because i love many ancient tragedies #but antigone ?#i love her so much #i have so many versions of her story now #plays : sophocles (3 translations including one by anne carson) / anouilh / cocteau #novels : henry bauchau’s oedipus on the road + antigone #and it breaks me every single time #classics #oedipus #jocasta #ismene #eteokles #polyneikes #polynices

So after second episode of the Final Season of AoT, I came up with this crazy reference. Remember Polyneikes and Eteocles? Two sons of Oedipus, cursed to kill each other, one is in Thebes, the other one outside, ready to attack the city (with his six friends, and neither ends up alive, well, tragoidia). BUT here in AoT we have, surprise, two brothers on two sides of the wall, willing to kill each other, am I right? Or am I just overinterpreting? 😂😂😂

Might be, because I have exam on archaic Greek literature tomorrow (but I couldn't refuse this temptation to watch the episode and it was SO GOOD).

Anyway, have a good day/night and take care!

#aot #snk #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #anime #history #eren yeager #zeke yeager #polyneikes #eteocles #greek archaic literature #homerus #thebaid #the cyclic thebaid #classical studies #classics

When Antigone complains to Ismene that their brother Polynices is “to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for birds that scan the eld and feast to their hearts’ content” (28-30), Antigone re-cites the plight of Patroclus in the Iliad: “unwept, unburied” (22.386). Does she imagine herself –are we to imagine her– an Achilles, fated to die early and bereft of a brother/lover?

Antigone, Interrupted — Bonnie Honig