#Eteocles

[siblingshowdown]

Sibling Showdown Round 1 Bracket D1

Image credit: The Oath of Fëanor by Jenny Dolfen (goldseven.de) used with permission, also showing Fëanor

Antigone by Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Eteocles not pictured

#sibling showdown #tumblr bracket #silmarillion #greek mythology #theban plays #maedhros #antigone #maglor #polynices #celegorm #eteocles #caranthir #ismene #curufin #amrod #amras #children of oedipus #sons of feanor #greek myth

[aestheticmoody]

Theban Cycle : Eteocles

#theban cycle #eteocles

[bison2winquote]

Eteocles to Hamyr, Mighty Warriors [1993] (Electronic Devices/ Electtronica Video-Games SRL)

#mighty warrirors #electronic devices #electtronica video-games srl #electtronica video-games #1993 #mighty warriors #eteocles #hamyr #fighting game #fighing games #fightan #fightans #fighter #fighting games #gaming

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

Polynices and Eteocles kill each other, but Oedipus is also murdering both from beyond the grave. All three are also killing Antigone, their strife makes her death inevitable as well. Fratricide, sororicide and filicide all at once...

#polynices #eteocles #oedipus #antigone #oedipus trilogy #three theban plays #why do people always focus on oedipus' relationship with jocasta? #his relationship with his children is far more interesting

[kaylamoaarmy]

Antigone story is so dramatic I love it

Here am gonna do a little study about each character

So first with the MC Antigone : dramatic yet lovely in her audacity to go against Creon's order. I love a strong female lead. A little bit repetitive. Big big naïve energy and has a hero complexe. Surprised she dies when IT'S LITERALLY WHAT HER SISTER TOLD HER. kinda sad she killed herself. But loved her lamentations.

Ismene (the sis): the only sane one in THAT family. Wanted a good vibe ended being a Labdacien TT. Like she didn't ask for this malediction SHE JUST WANTED A NORMAL LIFE. Definitely depressed. Hates everyone but her suicidal family. Weirdly wants to live

Creon (the oncle): Soooo he must had daddy issues. Like, the need to control EVERYTHING is just not it. I have a love hate relationship with him. Saw he was in the bad, tried to salvage his situation, sadly he was too late 😔. But yeah, a BIG morally grey character energy. Mood.

Hémon:l(the cousin/fiance): THE MAIN CHARACTER FOR ME. he was sassy, quirky, in love. BIG DADDY ISSUES. Was in love with his cousin (Antigone). Sweet home Alabama. Suicide is not the answer baby. Had a good strat. Could have been the best king of Thebes. Anyway BEST CHARACTER AND THE FUNNIEST.

The Devin: was not having it with the drama. Just wanted to cook the chicken. Disgusted with the carnage perfume Thebes was having. Did not come to play. Owned up Creon like the little kid he was. King of the malediction.

The chorale : a bunch of old gossipers. Love them. They were the tea. Played the cause and the consequences of the end of the play. Need to work on their songs tho.

The gard: was here for five seconds AND WAS ICONIC FOR EACH OF THEM. He was the moment and THE COMIC RELIEF.

The messenger: been their done that. Man saw three murders on one day and didn't bath an eyelash. Yep, he's cool I fuck with him

Polynice (the best dead bro): the cause of everything. WHY DID YOU GO WITH ARGOS U MOTHER FUCKER TT

Eteocles (the forgettable bro): attention seeker. And a jealous bitch. Didn't want to give the throne look where we are.

Anyway that is it.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talks 💅

#antigone #Eteocles #ancient greek #greek tumblr #greek quotes #tragedy #philosophy #ted talks #but ugh #ughhhh #entp x infp #entp #entp personality #i hate it here #entp things #classical mythology #greek mythology #zeus #hades #manhwa

[finelythreadedsky]

kinslaying stats for extant greek tragedy:

instances of infanticide/filicide: 6 (9 deaths total)

instances of fratricide: 2 (4 deaths total)

instances of patricide: 2

instances of matricide: 3

instances of mariticide: 2

instances of uxoricide: 2

#soooo... filicide sweep? #i'm counting alcestis as uxoricide (she did die) #and heracles in the trachiniai as both mariticide and patricide #you probably could do the stats for plenty of the lost/fragmentary plays too #all 3 matricides are clytemnestra btw #and both fratricides are the double deaths of polynices and eteocles #i'm counting instances narrated in choral odes as past events but not those that are just referred to as having happened #mine

[posflote]

antigone. THE tragic figure. blueprint of doomed siblings. my guy.

#collage #antigone #cain and abel #ismene #polynice #eteocle #siblings #digital collage #art collage

[glomlit]

I know I’m shouting into the void here but please ask me about fratricide

#literature #art #folklore #romulus and remus #cain and abel #set and osiris #notice how the victim is always at the end? yeah #mary and jesus #jesus #grendell #beowulf #hamlet #ITS EVERYWHERE TTωTT #eteocles and polynices #oedipus #oedipus cycle #jocasta #WAASH

[edwardscissorfeet]

antigone was like i can have a new husband and new children but my parents are dead and i will never have a brother again like. ok. ok. FUCK.

#real but also kind of suspicious the first time i resd that i was like hey. did antigone inherit her father's incestuousness #google said yeah #i cant believe sophocles wrote a bombass play with no villains. creon is valid. antigone is valid. polynices eteocles and haemon are valid. #sophocles #antigone #oedipus

[iphisesque]

once again thinking about haemon

#he's ismene he's antigone he's his mother he's his father's child and he spits on that old man's face. #choose me and leave your brother antigone im the only one who's ever died for you. and antigone cant leave them just as he cant leave her #he's a crucial part of the dying-for game. polynices and eteocles die for each other. antigone dies for polynices. haemon dies for antigone #(and of course eurydice dies for haemon.) #he takes on what should be ismene's rightful role in the narrative (the last one standing killing herself for the unjustly killed) #but because ismene is cursed to live he must die against his father's commands and he does so happily. #he recontextualizes the whole thing. the beloved now dies for his love it's no longer the brother dying for his blood. #and of course this was a story about the deadly fate of love all along. they're oedipus's children they had no chance at normality. #and haemon steps into the narrative reneges the father keeping him from the family death chain and goes to join his cousins in death-for. #antigone #im so normal about him. im biting him and shaking him around

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Thebaid the opera!

#opera #eteocle e polinice

[digitalafterlife]

xameleon theatre production of antigone is like. the original theban plays aren’t fucked up enough we need to feature even more incest

#apparently in their version ismene lena dunham’d antigone when they were kids #and eteocles and polynices ‘practised on’ antigone in the garden when she was 10 #and creon tries to r/pe her onstage #and why the FUCK would you make her pregnant with haemon’s child? and try to use that as a way of getting out of the execution??? #the point fucking FLEW over the directors head #hate. seething rage #antigone #greek theatre #theatre #jamie.txt

[writeitbadly]

Aug 19: Know Your Limitations

Use a random number generator to select one thing from each list. Then write a 2-minute monologue (~200-250 words) incorporating each of the three elements. (See below readmore)

Here lies my brother, workhorse of the industrial world, Polynices of Cleveland.

Sorry bro, but I gotta joke or I’ll lose it, and I can’t exactly afford to lose it out here with only you for company. These arms and lungs are all I’ve got to row myself back to civilization after we’ve parted ways.

And is it really even a joke? I’d stand up right now and shout it to the sky if I wasn’t worried someone would stop me, prevent this makeshift — illegal — burial at sea.

I know, I know, it’s not the sea, but the river leads to the lake and that’s the best I can do. Is it what you’d have chosen? I had to guess. Would you have preferred a windy mountain burial, to feel the breeze in your hair eternal? Or cremation to soar among the skies forever? Regardless, I think this is all I can manage on my own.

And now I wonder – would you blame Eteocles? Or even Ismene? I don’t think I do. I want to, but I don’t. We’re all just clawing by in a world that’s trying to chew us up and spit us out. And it got you. And they’re terrified to be next.

But I’m not, brother. I’ll finish what you started, and the union will pass. For all of us.

Windy Mountain – Lonesome Pine Fiddlers

Cleveland, Ohio

Buttered Popcorn, US: “Corn – the workhorse of the industrial world – is best when its sweet variety is fried up with lashings of butter till it bursts and then snarfed in greasy fistfuls while watching Netflix late at night.“

#mads #ok uhh this went some places?? #i've never done a monologue so i decided to limit myself further and stick to it #and then the phrase 'antigone of cleveland' popped into my head #while writing this i pictured polynices as a murdered am*zon union leader?? #and eteocles as a scab or mole rather than the murderer?? #anyway here it is i did it #prompt 2

[tylermileslockett]

Atalanta#8 "Aphrodites Revenge"

The marriage between Hippomenes and Atalanta proves strong and true, and Hippomenes doesn’t stifle his wife’s wild independence. On the contrary, he loves her the more for it. Many days they hunt together in the forests, and before long they have a son, Parthenopaeus. However, Hippomenes made an unforgivable mistake. He forgot to honor and sacrifice to Aphrodite for helping him win the foot race. The Olympians do not forget such things easily, and the goddess plans her revenge. One day the pair rest inside a cave dedicated to the mother goddess Cybele, where Aphrodite bewitches the two with lust, and they lay together within site of the gods. Furious at the blasphemous act, Cybele turns the lovers to lions, and put them under the harnesses of the Goddesses chariot.

Atalanta and Hippomenes son, Parthenopaeus, has his own epic life and story, as he goes on to be one of the captains in “The Seven Against Thebes” play. The third in a trilogy by “the father of Greek tragedy”, Aeschylus, the play concerns the two sons of King Oedipus of Thebes, Eteocles, who refuses to relinquish the throne, and Polynices, the other son who leads a revolt army led by seven Argive (from city-state of Argos) captains.

Cybele, a mother goddess of fertility, motherhood, and wilds, has her roots in Anatolia (Turkey), also knows as Asia Minor, in the kingdom of Phrygia. Using the title of Meter Theon, or “Mother of the gods,” the Greek equivalent would be Rhea. The goddess was born a hermaphrodite, but the other gods, fearing this duality, cut of her penis and discarded it. Later, when her mortal lover, Attis, spurns her, she drives him crazy and he amputates his penis and bleeds to death at the base of a pine tree. Thus, Cybele’s cult was run by transgender eunuch priests; the Galli. The orgiastic rites of the cult of Cybele share similarities with the cult of Dionysus. Apparently the priests and other followers, in honor of Cybeles castration, would work themselves into a frenzy, and mutilate and bleed themselves upon violets (representing Attis blood) adorned on a sacred pine tree.

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#aphrodite #Atalanta #Hippomenes #Parthenopaeus #greekmythology #greekgods #pjo #mythology #classics #classicscommunity #myths #ancientgreece

[navree]

oedipus killed his dad and fucked his mom. polynices and eteocles killed each other because they wanted to be king. agammemnon was ordered to sacrifice his own daughter. clytemnestra killed an innocent woman and ill-treated her children for years afterwards. orestes was goaded by elektra into murdering their mother. achilles murdered hector and desecrated his body. medea murdered a shitton of people including her own children.

one of the main draws of greek tragedies is that there aren't bright lines of "good" and "evil", it's about human people with flaws that exacerbate the situations they're in and lead to devastating consequences. oedipus's hotheadedness, medea's mild sociopathy, polynices and eteocles's lust for power, achilles and clytemnestra's rage, the tyranny and indifference of the gods themselves. that is what makes the greek tragedy so incredibly compelling even thousands of years after they were written, and why some of the great tragedies from later eras (shakespeare's tragedies, american canon tragedies like death of a salesman or the crucible) are still so inspired by that fundamental "the characters are flawed and those flaws are their downfalls regardless of inherent good or evil within them" type of storytelling.

and if you've been studying and analyzing greek texts and are not in fact just talking out of your ass for twitter points about the dragon incest show and you genuinely think that greek tragedies have clear cut "good guys" and "bad guys" then you are two steps away from being brain dead and i'm shocked you're allowed online access without adult supervision. also idk how to tell you that ancient greece was in fact quite misogynistic soooooooooooo. but i think op is just stupid.

#personal #house of the dragon #anti team black #this is a convergence of things i feel quite strongly about: theater. the stupid show. people being dumb. #and also my literal greek heritage that i'm quite strongly connected to and have been interwoven with since toddlerhood #do not fucking test me on greek stuff it will not work out for you #anyway this is why i avoid fandom twitter like the plague the people on it have the collective iq of a sandbox #also this is rebloggable i'm fine with people spreading the greek gospels for me #it helps counterbalance madeline miller's reign of terror

[straightplayshowdown]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been summoned to Elsinore by Claudius. He and Queen Gertrude, wish for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to glean what sudden sway of madness has affected Hamlet. The duo sets out to achieve their task, meeting a ragged troupe of players along the way. Brief glimpses of scenes from Hamlet show the trials and tribulations of the royals; our two heroes are largely left in a state of waiting. They pass the time playing games, posing questions, and tossing coins, until they gradually realize that their fates have been taken out of their own hands. They are merely characters in a larger story in which they have no say.

Antigone: After Oedipus' self-exile, his sons Eteocles and Polynices engaged in a civil war for the Theban throne, which resulted in both brothers dying fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law and new Theban ruler Creon ordered the public honoring of Eteocles and the public shaming of Thebes' traitor Polynices. The story follows the attempts of Antigone, the sister of Eteocles and Polynices, to bury Polynices, going against the decision of her uncle Creon and placing her relationship with her brother above human laws.

Propaganda under the cut!

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead:

what if we were both minor characters in Hamlet forced to die over and over again in a timeloop and we were both guys 😳. basically one of the only modern straight plays i know and its just so good!!!!!!!! Rosencratz's death monolouge gets me everytime

This play is for people that love Shakespeare, but also love weird shit. It somehow offers really insightful commentary on stories and fate and purpose while also feeling like a fever dream.

an existential and brilliant deconstruction of hamlet

it’s good 

Hamlet fanfic involving the game of questions and frequently not being on boats.

No, I'm tired sorry

waiting for godot meets hamlet. best of both worlds

A heartbreaking examination of the archetype “tragedy” — the knowledge that, essentially, the characters are doomed from the beginning, and cannot escape their fates, the inescapable feeling that they’re simply characters in a story. RAGAD treats the genre with comedy and makes two seemingly meaningless characters into an everyone’s favorite duo.

what if we were doomed by the narrative and flipped coins and licked feet and hid in barrels and hung out with a suspicious actor troupe who eventually turns against us and also we have to figure out what's up with hamlet because claudius told us to? and we were both boys? just kidding! ....unless?

I know the whole thing off by heard and I’ve never been in it. Does that count. Also it deserves to win because of what the awful awful film did to it.

Antigone:

Extremely seminal and powerful.

Play of all time. That is all. 

A play from the 5th century BCE that’s still resonant today

something about the worst punishment not being death but rather being forced to live on in a world that has already spurned you. something about sisterhood. something about "too late, too late, you see what justice means"

#polls #round 1 #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #ragad #antigone #the straight play showdown