#Euripides

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

#on my own. #sorry the formatting on this is weird theres a page break bleh #anne carson #euripides #quotes #herakles #theseus #herakles&theseus #i just thought ab this play again and god… like a little boat being towed along by a big boat…… #quoteblr #wordblr #euripides was rlly into this huh. w/ orestes & pylades ‘not to me not if its you’ like. he was rlly into this specific dynamic

[sleeprough]

i don't care.

#the heracles #theseus #heracles #herakles #greek tragedy #euripides #great dionysia #athens #playwrite

[oyster-valley]

herakles - euripides (tr. anne carson) //  aaron o’hanlon

#herakles #euripides #anne carson #aaron o'hanlon #on love #on affection #love #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #web weave #poetry #literature #quotes #spilled words #web weaving #spilled poetry

[benvoolioo]

hey girl, um, we were having a bacchanal and we kinda tore your boyfriend to shreds. yeah, ripped his head clean off. sorry about that :/

#has this been done already? #the bacchae #tagamemnon #euripides #dionysos #greek theatre #greek tragedy #the secret history #classics #classical studies

[alasforher]

Euripides, from "Orestes", An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

Our Flag Means Death (created by David Jenkins)

#this womans work starts playing #web weaving #euripides #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #stede bonnet #taika waititi #rhys darby #david jenkins #ofmdaily #ofmdedit #userelio #useraurore

[metamorphesque]

not to me. not if it’s you.

― Anne Carson (Euripides), Dead Poets Society (Final Script), Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Ep. 10), Anne Carson (H of H Playbook)

#i couldn't help it #web weavings #parallels #anne carson #euripides #h of h playbook #quotes #literature #classic literature #dead poets society #extraordinary attorney woo #kdrama #romantic academia #not to me not if it's you #love #on purpose #i'm gonna love you on purpose

[sicknessinmotion]

girlhood, love, godhood

kristin chang — @/onlywreckage on twitter — marcel proust — euripides — angels in america, dir. tony kushner.

#poetry #quotes #web weaving #webweaving #.w #words #excerpts #on love #kristin chang #marcel proust #euripides

[specialagentartemis]

Thinking about Agamemnon sacrificing his teenage daughter in order to go to war. Thinking about Odysseus trying to avoid going to war but when the choice was to kill his infant son or to go to war he chose the war. Thinking about how upon the death of Achilles, Odysseus recruited Achilles's teenage son Neoptolemus to join the war. About Odysseus or sometimes it's Neoptolemus throwing Hector's infant son off the battlements to his death. About Achilles's ghost demanding the sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena before the Greeks can sail home from Troy and when Hecuba begged Odysseus to spare Polyxena he said no, I want to go home, we're going to kill her. Thinking about how the only one of the Greek generals opposing Polyxena's sacrifice was Agamemnon. How Odysseus never wanted to be here but he will inflict the pain he wanted to avoid on others out of his duty to the other Greek soldiers. How Agamemnon, leader of the Greek soldiers, is so, so tired of sacrificing children to this war. How it happens anyway.

#tagamemnon #the Iliad #Euripides #some Iliad mostly the plays. Hecuba. Iphigenia in Aulis. The Trojan Women

[newvision]

E.M. Forster, from Maurice

Euripides

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

#BE A FOOL #sorry I know those other two excerpts are very popular on here but I couldn’t think of anything else when I read that line in Maurice #floored me tbh #intertextuality #web weaving #webweaving #on love #literature #poetry #books #litblr #classic lit #classic literature #queer lit #queer literature #gay literature #gay lit #Euripides #Herakles #anne sexton #translated literature #Maurice #e.m. forster #em forster #mine

[maryoliverdotcom]

euripides? more like yuripides

#euripides #classics #dark academia #lesbian #classical literature #yuri #yaoi

[tossawary]

I enjoy the efforts of the "Percy Jackson" show to make the kids better at catching on to the monsters and other mythological figures they meet. It suits the fast pacing demanded by the limited number of episodes. It fits with how vigilant and clever the characters are. The idea that half-blood children are desperately trying to memorize the lore and often end up in danger despite their best efforts is tragically compelling to me.

Knowing that it's Medusa ahead doesn't make Medusa not dangerous. It's interesting to have Medusa use their knowledge of her story and compassion against them. I enjoy seeing these kids trying to make good and kind choices with the knowledge they have.

Also, I was scrolling Wikipedia for a list of Poseidon's children while chatting with someone after the latest episode (7), and I found out that there's a lost Euripides play about Bellerophon (son of Poseidon), rider of Pegasus (another child of Poseidon), the hero who slew the Chimera. It involves Bellerophon doubting the existence of the gods and trying to storm Olympus on Pegasus??? That sounds incredibly cool. I so badly wish that I could read that lost play.

And thinking about these plays and how much I enjoy these stories made me finally fully realize that the opinions of my lit classes and even greater academia on these stories must have nothing on the arguments held at Camp Half-blood. This camp is fully of traumatized and troubled teenagers with swords, whose emotional investment in these stories outclasses everyone else on the planet, partially because their very survival depends on their knowledge of this lore and the grace of their godly family. They must have OPINIONS on this stuff that takes "fandom" behavior to another level.

The "Is Euripides' Medea a girlboss?" argument has been permanently banned as a subject by Chiron after one long and bloody summer of debate.

#tossawary pjo #tossawary reading #euripides #spoilers

[bones-ivy-breath]

Preface, Tragedy: A Curious Art Form by Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons

#quote #typography #anne carson #grief lessons #dark academia #aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #euripides #tragedy #dark things #rage #ancient greece #ancient greek literature #the self

[flaroh]

Classicstober Day 6: Medea 🐉🪄

#tagamemnon #flaroh illustration #classicstober #classicstober23 #ancient history #medea #witch character #euripides #ancient magic #history of witchcraft #witchcore

[terpsikeraunos]

λέγουσι δ᾽ ὥς τις εἰσελήλυθε ξένος, γόης ἐπῳδὸς Λυδίας ἀπὸ χθονός, ξανθοῖσι βοστρύχοισιν εὐοσμῶν κόμην, οἰνῶπας ὄσσοις χάριτας Ἀφροδίτης ἔχων... - And they say that some foreigner has arrived, a sorcerer, an enchanter from the land of Lydia, with sweet-smelling hair in tawny curls, the wine-dark charms of Aphrodite in his eyes...

Euripides, Bacchae 233-236

#ancient greek #my translation #bacchae #euripides #dionysus

[swallowtail-ageha]

Bacchae, Euripides

#tagamemnon #bacchae #euripides #dionysus #pentheus #dionysos

[alasforher]

Euripides, from "Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

Red, White and Royal Blue (2023) dir. Matthew López

#i wish there wasnt a wall #history huh #waterloo letters #firstprince #red white and royal blue #rwarb #rwrb #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #prince henry #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #casey mcquiston #lgbtqia #web weaving #euripides