#qui posts

[quia-nominor--leo]

Forced Franciscan tonsurization Saturday or something

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who are trying to resurrect their brothers, this is about brothers who mourn, this is about brothers who drag the body of their dead brother around and plead, wait for me! don't go where I can't follow!

Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Interview with HuffPost) || Antigonick (Anne Carson) || detail from Antigone au chevet de Polynice (Benjamin-Constant) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Life of Cato Minor (Plutarch) || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || detail from Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures (Angelica Kauffmann) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || Elektra (Sophokles, trans. Anne Carson) || Thebaid Book IX (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail from Orestes and Elektra || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Crassus (Plutarch) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || The Phoenician Women (Euripides, trans. P Burian & B Swann) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || detail from Antigone Sentenced to Death by Creon (Giuseppe Diotti) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic (F K Drogula) || App. BC 5.14.143 || Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke)

[qui-rault]

I'm not joking when I say that I think about this letter Couthon sent to Saint-Just at least once a week. 'Embrace Herault' indeed.

[pomp-quio]

if you are mark antony and most likely grew up hearing about your illustrious grandfather who subdued the pirates in cilicia and had several success in the east to the extent that he was allowed to celebrate a triumph - and then when you are in your early 20s, pompey comes back from the east and celebrates his triumph complete with pirates and ships ... lets consider this one point in my mark antony is weird about pompey column

[pomp-quio]

In the spirit of recent events, I would like to share these photos of Marlon Brando's Mark Antony and Louis Calhern's Caesar sharing doughnuts and coffee, post-Incident. It's important to replace all the fluids you lose after you've been stabbed a couple of times!

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who pull each other into death, this is about brothers who ask for promises that will only lead to disaster, this is about brothers who lay a claim and say, you can either have both of us or neither of us, this is about brothers who are a curse to each other, this is about brothers who drag their brothers straight into tragedy with them.

After Abel (Dante Émile) || Life of Caius Gracchus (Plutarch) || Thebaid Commentary (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail of Cain Killing Abel (Niccolò Tornioli), Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || A Brother Named Gethsemane (Natalie Diaz) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Succession 4 x 10 || Thebaid Book VIII (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Killing Flies (Michael Dickman) || detail from Orestes and Electra || In Praise of the Lesser Known Siblings of Mythology (Philip Womack) || Libation Bearers (Aeschylus, trans. S Ruden) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || detail of Eteocles and Polynices (mural in François Tomb from Vulci) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides, trans. J Morwood) || After Abel (Dante Émile)

[pomp-quio]

i am on the cutting edge of rome research 😘

[pomp-quio]

i recently had the chance to visit the Consular and Triumphal Capitoline Fasti and spent almost half an hour dodging a projected slideshow trying to pinpoint figures from the late Republic. Pompey and Crassus aren't there but we do have:

P Licinius Crassus (father of that Crassus) and Gn Pompeius Strabo (father of that Pompey) celebrating triumphs:

And the co-consuls of 171 BC P Licinius Crassus and C Cassius Longinus:

With a cameo from Ti Sempronius Gracchus consul in 177 BC (father of those Gracchi):

And the clusterfuck of Cinna, Sulla, and Marius somewhere here:

Anyway, what is Rome if not sons that are missing, sons that are lost in lacunae. The bust of L Junius Brutus is literally in the next room.

I will be back.