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helen blinding a man for disrespecting her and restoring his vision for retelling what will become euripides helen is so metal actually

#helen of sparta #stesichoros #he went i was unfamiliar with your game sorry dear goddess 🙏#euripides helen #sappho's lyre #diane rayor

— from Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

"[...] Revising the perceived sad ending of the entry, Geryon again borrows from “Red Meat,” this time its final fragment, writing, “All over the world the beautiful red breezes went on blowing hand/ in hand,” shifting away from self-centering and instead highlighting red’s continuance without him and its propensity for connection, despite Geryon’s own alienation. Redness is not exclusive to boys but can belong to breezes too."

— from Anne Carson: “Red Meat: Fragments of Stesichoros” by Kristi Maxwell

#poetry #anne carson #autobiography of red #shame #stesichoros #redness #alienation through shame

autobiography of red - anne carson

#planning a love you post on the enlisted homeric epithets already #stesichoros #autobiography of red #anne carson #words #on words #classics shit #geryoneis #~just a sinner.#queuing and quoting

head;... quiver;... the man once...; ...heart...

Stesichoros, Geryoneis (incomplete fragment s9), trans. by David A. Campbell

#lit #poetry #stesichoros #geryoneis #david campbell #I have feelings about this being obviously written to depict a readying-for-battle scene and what's left of it throws my mind #in the territory of eros instead—that double-reading of QUIVER when it's surrounded by head and heart—

"Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Of course there are several different ways to be. In the world of the Homeric epic, for example, being is stable and particularity is set fast in tradition. When Homer mentions blood, blood is black. When women appear, women are neat-ankled or glancing. Poseidon always has the blue eyebrows of Poseidon. Gods' laughter is unquenchable. Human knees are quick. The sea is unwearying. Death is bad. Cowards' livers are white. Homer's epithets are a fixed diction with which Homer fastens every substance in the world to its aptest attribute and holds them in place for epic consumption. There is a passion in it but what kind of passion?

'Consumption is not a passion for substances but a passion for the code,' says Baudrillard. So into the still surface of this code Stesichoros was born. And Stesichoros was studying the surface restlessly. It leaned away from him. He went closer. It stopped. 'Passion for substances' seems a good description of that moment. For no reason that anyone can name, Stesichoros began to undo the latches.

Stesichoros released being. All the substances in the world went floating up. Suddenly there was nothing to interfere with horses being hollow hooved. Or a river being root silver. Or a child bruiseless. Or hell as deep as the sun is high. Or Herakles ordeal strong. Or a planet middle night stuck. Or an insomniac outside the joy. Or killings cream black. Some substances proved more complex. To Helen of Troy, for example, was attached an adjectival tradition of whoredom already old by the time Homer used it. When Stesichoros unlatched her epithet from Helen there flowed out such a light as may have blinded him for a moment. This is a big question, the question of the blinding of Stesichoros by Helen although generally regarded as unanswerable."

- Anne Carson, from her introduction to Autobiography of Red