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dishsaop · 2 years
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god ismene though like was ismene younger or older than antigone. did she look up to antigone her whole life the way a little sister does, her firebrand brave sister, devout and devoted, so much closer to her than her kingly brothers, yet so untouchable still. did ismene copy her older sister the way kids do, stealing habits and turns of phrase and fashion styles, only slightly off and just a little annoying because shes just a little kid, isnt she. did ismene borrow her big sisters clothes and jewelry. did ismene help her big sister dress for antigones burial.
was ismene older? did she practically raise antigone herself, the way older sisters are sometimes saddled with. their family is one of the most historically ruinous and tragic families of all time, isnt it, and with all the agony and prophecy and drama and sin, someone had to look after the youngest. did ismene comb the tangles out of antigones hair throughout her childhood, wiping away the tears of rage so furious only little children can have, did ismene tug sandals on antigones little feet and lay out her clothes for her? did ismene dress her sister one last time on the day of her death, so full of rage but no tears anymore - only just devotion, only a little sister who has become a symbol for righteous love, but still a little sister.
either way. either way, ismenes every act in the play is to try to save her sister. begging antigone not to go, not to risk it - their brothers are dead but antigone is still alive, and ismene begs her sister to stay alive. go then as one beloved. go then without your mind. and then the worst; antigone is seen, and known, and caught, and kreon demands her death, and it was never ismenes love of city law that kept her from burying her brother - and it is not a need for glory or praise or righteousness that sends her to claim the deed next to antigone. who is there to be glorious for? jocasta and oedipus? how? the chorus is a mess of inane old men. the city is an abstract, and the gods may as well be too. haemon only matters to his father, and kreon is blind. no, ismene just doesnt want to leave her sister. let me share in this your death sister ismene pleads and antigone has already brushed her off, ismene is only there for antigone but antigone is so much bigger now. too big for ismene to save.
because thats the kicker, isnt it, because antigone is already dead. maybe antigone died when her brothers did. maybe it was just when she saw him unburied. but whether younger or older, ismene grew up with her sister, they are closer than they ought to be, bound by blasphemous parenthood, but what could that have done but given them cause to stand together and yet for all that ismene hasnt seen yet that antigone is dead already. antigone had shouted it, but ismene refused to admit it and now her sister is walking to her tomb and ismene is never mentioned again. she doesnt walk on stage. her name is gone. unwept, unloved, antigone cries going to her tomb, and where is ismene to weep and to love? when antigone dies, ismene might as well have died too. antigone dead when their brothers died and ismene died when her sister dies. what a fucking family. too close in every way. god. god. them. sisters.
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finelythreadedsky · 10 months
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i know sophocles' theban plays weren't originally a trilogy and were actually written decades apart and out of order, but if you perform them as a trilogy you can do the really fun thing of having the same actor play polynices in oedipus at colonus and haemon in antigone, because's antigone's fiance/cousin should be the same as her brother/uncle/nephew
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bretwalda-lamnguin · 5 months
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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...
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koruga · 1 year
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the bracket i'm making is actually a reading list for me in disguise. i've cleverly democratised the effort to get me to fucking read again
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tylermileslockett · 1 year
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In 5th century Athens, a festival in honor of Dionysus was held called the City Dionysia where competitions in music, dance, poetry, and outdoor theatre performances took place. Here playwrights perfected three types of plays; comedies, tragedies, and satyr plays. A masked actor(s) would communicate with a group known as the Chorus; who summarized plot points and backstory to the audience. These elegant and incredible plays, not only expand our views on mythic characters and tales, but they reveal insight into the ancient cultural beliefs of Athenian Greeks. There were many playwrights, but the three most famous tragedians are as follows…
Aeschylus (525-455 B.C.) (Eh-skuh-lus) known as “the father of tragedy,” descended from a line of Eleusinian priests, and fought as a hoplite soldier against the Persians. Aristotle credits Aeschylus with first creating conflict between two characters in a play (before this the characters would only converse with the chorus members). His Oresteia trilogy, is the only surviving complete trilogy we have. Out of his 80- 90 plays, 7 are extant (surviving).
Sophocles (496 – 406 B.C.) (saa-fuh-kleez) came from a wealthy family, was highly educated, and well known and respected amongst statesmen. He is credited by Aristotle for the innovation of adding a third actor onstage to propel the plot, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus, as well as adding skenographia, or scene paintings. Out of the 30 competitions he entered, he won 24. Sophocles most famous plays are his Theban plays; Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Out of his 120 plays, 7 are extant.
Euripides (480- 406 B.C.) (yer-i-puh-deez) was a pioneer for portraying mythic heroes as more flawed, as well as developing internal character conflict to new heights with female characters like Medea and Hecuba. He commonly used the plot device Deus Ex Machina; where gods arrive to resolve the conflict at the end. It is said Euripedes socialized with Sophist philosophers, and owned a large library. He only won 4 competitions. Out of his 92 plays, 19 are extant.
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mask131 · 10 months
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A fantasy read-list: A-1
Fantasy read-list 
Part A: Ancient fantasy
1) Mythological fantasy (Greco-Roman)
The oldest form of fantasy in the history of mankind is, without a doubt, mythology. The roots of the modern fantasy genre are found in the old myths and legends of the Antiquity - and so this read-list will open with a few works of reference when it comes to mythology, the most famous texts covering the legends of old.
# The “founding duo”: Homer and Hesiod
These two poets form the oldest Greek mythological texts known to history, and together they created the basis on which classical Greek mythology formed itself (though Hesiod and Homer had conflicting mythology, with numerous differences in pantheons, relationships and cosmogonies, resulting in an “Homeric” Greek mythology - older and more archaic - and an “Hesiodic” Greek mythology - the most famous and widespread one, the “classical” pantheon). 
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the two greatest epics of Ancient Greece, and the two works from which the epic genre originally defined itself. The Homeric Hymns were probably not written by Homer himself, just written in his style, but they are also a series of mini-epics each depicting the greatest adventures and most famous legends of the Greek gods.
Hesiod’s Theogony is the cosmogony of Ancient Greece, and the creation legend of its mythology. He also collected/wrote several Greek myths in his Works and Days.
# Callimachus’ Aetia (a poem explaining the mythological origins of rites, cults and worships, in the style of the Theogony) and Hymns (hymns to the god in the style of the Homeric Hymns)
# Apollonius’ Argonautica. Another famous Greek epic, and the main source of information for the myth of Jason, Medea and the Argonauts.
# The trio of famous Ancient Greece tragedy playwrights. Aeschylus, author of Prometheus Bound, the Seven Against Thebes, and the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides).  Sophocles, with his Theban trilogy (Oedipus-Rex, Oedipus at Column, Antigone) and other plays such as Ajax or the Women of Trachis. Euripides, famous for his Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Herakles, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Bacchae and many more... 
Plus, in a different genre, Artistophanes, the “father of comedy” or “prince of comedy”: The Birds and The Frogs are his most mythological plays, though other classics of his include The Clouds, The Wasps or Lysistrata... 
# The fourth volume of Diodorus Siculus’ “Bibliotheca historica”, which is a true encyclopedia of all the Greek myths and legends Diodorus could find.
# The “founding duo” of Roman myths: the Roman equivalent of Hesiod and Homer, with works just as influential as them.
Virgil, who with his Aeneid formed a “sequel” to Homer’s Iliad and created the greatest Roman epic of history - he also collected/rewrote several myths in his Bucolics and Georgics. 
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the other main piece of literature that defined Ancient Roman literature and mythology as a whole, and for the longest time in Europe it stayed the main source of information about Greco-Roman mythology - to the point Ovid’s Metamorphoses was much more well-known than Hesiod or Homer’s own works. Other works of his with mythological tales include his Ars Amatoria and his Fasti. 
# Titus Livius’ “Ab urbe condita”, a work containing the history of Rome, but opening with the myths and legends concerning the foundation of this city.
# Antoninus Liberalis’ Metamorphoses, the lesser-know “twin” of Ovid’s own Metamorphoses.
# Hyginus’ Fabulae and De Astronomica. Compilation of myths and legends told with a scientific mind. 
# Apuleius’ The Golden Ass. A strange, bizarre, mystic and comical novel of late Ancient Rome, which contains the most famous version of the legend of Psyche and Cupid.
# The works of Lucian, another author of late Antiquity. Highlights include The Dialogues of the Gods, a parody of the Homeric epics and mythology ; Lover of Lies, which contains the earliest version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” tale ; and A True Story, considered by many to be the earliest work of sci-fi.
# The Orphic Hymns, and the Orphic Argonautica, the two main texts informing us about the “Orphic religion”, a mystery cult with its own mythology, cosmogony and beliefs completely separate from the “classical” Greek mythology of Hesiod/Homer. 
# Nonnus’ famous Dionysiaca, the last of the great mythological epics of Antiquity, written by a very, VERY late Greek author (we are talking of a post-Roman era author, living in an early-Christianized Greece). 
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lesbiancassius · 1 year
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Hey June! I was wondering, what medias/books would you recommend for a person wanting to get into the ancient greek classics? The Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid stories fascinate me, but as there are so many versions and translations and retellings, I don't really know where to start. How did you get into them?
hey anon! I feel mildly underqualified to answer this as I actually haven’t read the Iliad or Odyssey or all of the Aeneid but I will do my best (i’m working on it! promise! iliad is up next and i’m gonna read it and i’m gonna go crazyinsane)
firstly you should totally read the original texts. remember that they aren’t The One True Story, they’re just written-down versions of wobbly cultural stories that change from person to person. and you don’t have to read them before reading retellings or adaptation but it’s good to read them fairly close together. just read what you wanna read. the bit of the Aeneid I read was translated by Robert Fagles, and I’ve heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is good. my friend Theo @fifthlydoyoudream recommends E. V. Rieu’s Argonautica translation, if you wanna read that. poetry in translation has decent translations of most plays i’ve tried to find, and that’s nice because it’s online and super accessible.
the way I first got into the greek classics was reading Anne Carson’s An Oresteia, which is Agamemnon, Elektra, and Orestes. it’s a really great intro because Anne Carson’s translations are just fantastic & it’s one play from each of the three big greek tragedy-writers & it’s a pretty well-contained story so you don’t need much context - you could read Iphigenia at Aulis first but that’s not really necessary. (confusingly there is also The Oresteia, which is different). if you can find an Anne Carson translation of a play you should totally read that one. that’s my rule of thumb. I always recommend Antigone too - it’s also fairly self-contained and it makes me crazyinsane. Anne Carson has two translations, they’re both good - Antigonick is better if you have a little context beforehand in my opinion. also Oedipus the King/Oedipus Rex is good.
tbh what i recommend is just following characters or stories that you like and seeing where that gets you. like i’m having a pretty intense house of atreus moment atm but i still barely know who penelope is because i haven’t read the odyssey. who is penthesilea? still do not know. but don’t get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff out there!! it can be a little scary but wikipedia is your friend and also you do not have to know everything.
and some adaptations/retellings:
Lavinia by Ursula K. le Guin is an adaptation/retelling of the Aeneid from Lavinia’s point of view and it is very very good.
Luis Alfaro’s Greek Trilogy are play adaptations of Oedipus Rex, Elektra, and Medea set in modern-day LA with a Latino cast and it is so fucking good it makes me want to bite glass and explode. you can find oedipus el rey by googling but the other ones might be a bit more annoying to find
Iphigenia and the Furies (on Taurian Land) by Ho Ka Kei is a good deconstruction of the colonialist nature of Iphigenia among the Taurians, and it is also absurdly hilarious, so I recommend. I read it before I read the play it adapts and I was fine but it is good to have context.
i’m having an iphigenia moment anyway i also recommend Iphigenia at Zero by Lisa Schlesinger if you get into iphigenia’s story.
I’m like 15 pages in to Cassandra by Christa Wolf and I am thoroughly enjoying it so far
Antigone directed by Sophie Deraspe is a great French Canadian adaptation of Antigone in the modern day I really like it
and who would i be if i didn’t recommend max @goose-books‘s godsong, aka the aeneid (among other things) with lesbians
also. note on adaptation - a lot of adaptations i have read flatten the morality of these plays into good and bad. i think that’s dumb. let them be shitty, adaptations!
ok thats all good luck brave soldier o7
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bracketsoffear · 1 year
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OKAY so anti-antigone propaganda cause she is NOT a buried avatar she's an END avatar (for the record this is all lighthearted and stuff:]] for fun!!) okay so first off, I see why people are saying antigone's a buried avatar I guess, but there is SO much more proof towards end antigone it's Insane. Yes you can take some aspects of the buried from her, but not enough to warrant being labeled as a buried avatar, much less The buried avatar or even that aligned with the buried anyway??? First off, more physical/simpler things- her story starting with burying her brother has less to do with the burying itself and more to do with the religious rites that come with it. As its well known, in Greece you can't properly move into Hades (the afterlife) without the rites, and THATS why she wanted to bury him- that's more end aligned then anything. I believe she has the same end-buried confusion as you could have with Hezekiah Wakely- he's a gravedigger who talked about being overwhelmed with some of the aspects of his job, but finds peace when he's digging graves. At first you could take this at somewhat face value and say Oh dirt dig overwhelmed kinda buried stwo people at least alive Buried Avatar but he is Not he's an end avatar, because at the end of the day it was the peace that came with the death that enticed Wakely. Also on that note, I'll move onto the second point- yes she was assigned to die by being locked in a tomb (if I'm remebering right, something along those lines) HOWEVER: It didn't have anything to do with being buried alive, or crushed, or anything along those lines (which are all the signatures of the buried), she was left to slowly starve to death instead, which renders the buried influence so irrelevant that it shouldn't really be counted? Not only that, but at the end of the day she ends up taking her OWN life anyway. Not by anything buried related, but only to claim her own death! I have more to say about how end she is, but I'll address the metaphorical buried attributes people assign to her. You can say she's tied to or crushed by her families tragedy or crushed by those expectations and dealing with things like that (I don't know if I wrote down the ideas here well enough but people have sent in antigone propaganda stuff so you can go look at that for reference:]), however that's not the center point of her story is! Not only that, I would say her family is more aligned with the desolation and she's more marked by desolation rather than buried cause of it. ALSO, she isn't "buried" by them either, or if she was then the end dragged her out of it- we can see when she goes to bury her brother, she asks her sister to help her and when she refuses Antigone goes without her anyway and scorns her later! If you want, you can take this as her moving from buried to end even. NOT TO MENTION, her death triggered like 4 others, in such also triggering the END of the Oedipus family AND Antigone is the last play in the trilogy- making it the END. Making HER the literal end. There's quotes and stuff I want to add (she quite literally says something along the lines of "I belong to Death now), but I've written this full stream of consciousness at lunch and it's already at the end so I don't have time right now LMAO I will later though
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hemlockdrunk · 9 months
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the evangelists' trilogy characters as weird ass tshirts i found on pinterest !!!
exactly what the title says
starting off strong with the middle-aged emo (marc):
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proceeding with oedipus complex king mathias:
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and third of all but forever first in my heart!!!lucien:
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on an additional note, van the elder:
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aaaand ludwig:
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thank you for coming to my ted talk !!!
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homomenhommes · 5 months
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …
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496 BC – Sophocles (d.406 BC) was one of three great Greek tragic poets. He came from wealth, and moved easily in society. Over his productive life of over sixty years he wrote over 123 plays, of which only seven remain.
The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published under a single cover. Sophocles, however, wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilogy (three plays presented as a continuous narrative) but they are not even an intentional series and contain some inconsistencies among them.
Several ancient writers have commented on Sophocles' love of youths. One tells us, "The young Sophocles was beautiful, and a man named Lampros had taught him dancing and music when he was a boy. After the Battle of Salamis [480 BC] Sophocles danced around the victory monument playing the lyre, nude and rubbed with olive oil - though according to others he was clad." Athenaeus alleged that in addition to seeking and keeping female courtesans, "Sophocles was fond of young lads, as Euripides was fond of women." He also tells a story of how Sophocles tricked a young serving boy into kissing him.
Sophocles's strategies did not always turn out to his advantage. He was reputed to have had amorous trysts with pretty boys all life long; Plato swore to it. His pederasty is similarly reported by Euripides, and by Athenaios. The latter, who liked gathering anecdotes about the lives of the great men of antiquity, relates one of Sophocles's misadventures:
"One day, Sophocles (who was around 65 years of age at the time) led beyond the walls of the city a beautiful youth in order to enjoy him. The lad spread his rough himation (a cheap coat) on the grass and the two covered themselves with the elegant chlanis [cloak] of the poet. When the thing was done, the boy snatched the chlanis, leaving the himation for Sophocles. Naturally word of this got around, and as soon as Euripides found out he made great fun of it."
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1938 – John E. Fryer, M.D. (d.2003) was an American psychiatrist and gay rights activist best known for his anonymous speech at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association annual conference where he appeared in disguise and under the name Dr H. Anonymous. This event has been cited as a key factor in the decision to de-list homosexuality as a mental illness from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The American Psychiatric Association John E. Fryer, M.D., Award is named in his honor.
At a time when homosexuality was still listed as a mental illness, Fryer was the first gay American psychiatrist to speak publicly about his sexuality. A year earlier, at the 1971 convention in Washington, gay activist Franklin E. Kameny had seized the microphone at the conference as part of a long-standing protest about the diagnosis of homosexuality, initiating the first gay-rights protest at an American Psychiatric Association conference.
This protest led to a session at the 1972 conference on homosexuality and mental illness entitled 'Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals: A Dialogue' with Kameny and Barbara Gittings sitting on the panel. Listed only as Dr H. Anonymous, Fryer appeared on stage wearing a face mask, wig, tuxedo and spoke through a microphone which distorted his voice.
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Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, & John Fryer (in mask)
Dr Fryer's speech started with the words "I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist" and continued to describe the lives of the many gay psychiatrists among the American Psychiatric Association who had to hide their sexuality from their colleagues for fear of discrimination, and from fellow homosexuals owing to the disdain in which the psychiatric profession was held among the gay community. Fryer's speech also suggested ways in which gay psychiatrists could subtly and 'creatively' challenge prejudice in their profession without disclosing their sexuality, and help gay patients adjust to a society that considered their sexual preferences a sign of psychopathology.
Homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders a year later, and Fryer's speech has been cited as a key factor in persuading the psychiatric community to reach this decision.
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1962 – Dirk Shafer, born in Carbondale, Illinois, is an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. He is most noted in the modeling world for being Playgirl magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1992. He did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive.
Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.
As of 2008 Shafer was working as a fitness trainer and certified Pilates instructor. In 2012, Shafer returned to the pages of Playgirl for a 20th anniversary photo spread in the August issue
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1988 – Reid Ewing is an American actor known for his role as Dylan, Haley's boyfriend on the ABC comedy Modern Family.
Ewing appeared in theater productions in the South Florida area. He studied at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach and the School for Film and Television in New York before moving to Los Angeles. In April 2010, he was cast for the MTV film The Truth Below.
In addition to acting, Ewing plays the piano, guitar, and banjo. He wrote the song "In the Moonlight (Do Me)", which his character performed on Modern Family.
In 2011, he appeared in Wendy's "Where's the beef?" commercials.
In 2015, Ewing revealed that he has suffered from body dysmorphic disorder, which resulted in several cosmetic surgeries. He came out as gay on November 23, 2015, while again addressing his body dysmorphia.
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1989 – ABC lost $1.5 million in pulled ads when the television show "thirtysomething" showed two men in bed together.
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Today's Gay Wisdom: Dr. John E. Fryer
Dr. John Fryer, in disguise, spoke in May 1972 before the annual American Psychiatric Association’s conference held in Dallas. It was the first time a gay psychiatrist addressed the group, and was part of the gay-rights activism targeting the APA that led to the removal of homosexuality as a diagnosis in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This is the text of that speech:
"Thank you, Dr. Robinson. I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist. I, like most of you in this room, am a member of the APA and am proud to be a member. However, tonight I am, insofar as in it is possible, a ‘we.’ I attempt tonight to speak for many of my fellow gay members of the APA as well as for myself. When we gather at these conventions, we have a group, which we have glibly come to call the Gay-PA. And several of us feel that it is time that real flesh and blood stand up before you and ask to be listened to and understood insofar as that is possible. I am disguised tonight in order that I might speak freely without conjuring up too much regard on your part about the particular WHO I happen to be. I do that mostly for your protection. I can assure you that I could be any one of more than a hundred psychiatrists registered at this convention. And the curious among you should cease attempting to figure out who I am and listen to what I say.
"We homosexual psychiatrists must persistently deal with a variety of what we shall call ‘Nigger Syndromes.’ We shall describe some of them and how they make us feel.
"As psychiatrists who are homosexual, we must know our place and what we must do to be successful. If our goal is academic appointment, a level of earning capacity equal to our fellows, or admission to a psychoanalytic institute, we must make certain that no one in a position of power is aware of our sexual orientation or gender identity. Much like the black man with the light skin who chooses to live as a white man, we cannot be seen with our real friends - our real homosexual family - lest our secret be known and our dooms sealed. There are practicing psychoanalysts among us who have completed their training analysis without mentioning their homosexuality to their analysts. Those who are willing to speak up openly will do so only if they have nothing to lose, then they won’t be listened to.
"As psychiatrists who are homosexuals, we must look carefully at the power which lies in our hands to define the health of others around us. In particular, we should have clearly in our minds, our own particular understanding of what it is to be a healthy homosexual in a world, which sees that appellation as an impossible oxymoron. One cannot be healthy and be homosexual, they say. One result of being psychiatrists who are homosexual is that we are required to be more healthy than our heterosexual counterparts. We have to make some sort of attempt throughtherapy or analysis to work problems out. Many of us who make that effort are still left with a sense of failure and of persistence of "the problem." Just as the black man must be a super person, so must we, in order to face those among our colleagues who know we are gay. We could continue to cite examples of this sort of situation for the remainder of the night. It would be useful, however, if we could now look at the reverse.
"What is it like to be a homosexual who is also a psychiatrist? Most of us Gay-PA members do not wear our badges into the Bayou Landing [a gay bar in Dallas] or the local Canal Baths. If we did, we could risk the derision of all the non-psychiatrist homosexuals. There is much negative feeling in the homosexual community towards psychiatrists. And those of us who are visible are the easiest targets from which the angry can vent their wrath. Beyond that, in our own hometowns, the chances are that in any gathering of homosexuals, there is likely to be any number of patients or paraprofessional employees who might try to hurt us professionally in a larger community if those communities enable them to hurt us that way.
"Finally, as homosexual psychiatrists, we seem to present a unique ability to marry ourselves to institutions rather than wives or lovers. Many of us work 20 hours daily to protect institutions that would literally chew us up and spit us out if they knew the truth. These are our feelings, and like any set of feelings, they have value insofar as they move us toward concrete action.
"Here, I will speak primarily to the other members of the Gay-PA who are present, not in costume tonight. Perhaps you can help your fellow psychiatrist friends understand what I am saying. When you are with professionals, fellow professionals, fellow psychiatrists who are denigrating the "faggots" and the "queers," don’t just stand back, but don’t give up your careers, either. Show a little creative ingenuity; make sure you let your associates know that they have a few issues that they have to think through again. When fellow homosexuals come to you for treatment, don’t let your own problems get in your way, but develop creative ways to let the patient know that they’re all right. And teach them everything they need to know. Refer them to other sources of information with basic differences from your own so that the homosexual will be freely able to make his own choices.
"Finally, pull up your courage by your bootstraps, and discover ways in which you and homosexual psychiatrists can be closely involved in movements which attempt to change the attitudes of heterosexuals - and homosexuals - toward homosexuality. For all of us have something to lose. We may not be considered for that professorship. The analyst down the street may stop referring us his overflow. Our supervisor may ask us to take a leave of absence. We are taking an even bigger risk, however, not accepting fully our own humanity, with all of the lessons it has to teach all the other humans around us and ourselves. This is the greatest loss: our honest humanity. And that loss leads all those others around us to lose that little bit of their humanity as well. For, if they were truly comfortable with their own homosexuality, then they could be comfortable with ours. We must use our skills and wisdom to help them - and us - grow to be comfortable with that little piece of humanity called homosexuality."
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hammyham-o-o · 2 days
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Give me a book that you think James madison would read or Alexander Hamilton would read This is for a fic. I need books and my book taste is not good enough. Btw please specify which guy would read the book
Hi! Ik it's too late for the fic but here are a couple thoughts I had :3
Alexander Hamilton:
The Odyssey! This was the first book that popped into my head, mainly because of hamalicious-soup's amrev odyssey lol. But I also think it's def a book he would read, because it's Ancient Greek, and part of the literary canon (a classic :))
I don't remember if this was historical fact, speculation, or just someone's headcanon, but I read somewhere once that Alex and John would share references to Greek mythology that they'd read and AHH I love that smmm
Antigone- one of the few Ancient Greek plays I've read, and it's about an underdog fighting the powers that be, so pretty much right up his alley (part of the Oedipus Rec trilogy, which is a rlly cool story if you like Greek mythology hehe)
Just the classics and literary canon books in general, since they'd be held in high regard and he would probably want to prove how smart he is by reading them lol
Oh Shakespeare FOR SURE he'd be a pretentious little bitch about it (affectionate) and it's musical canon that he read Macbeth, which also makes tons of sense because he could def relate to the character)
Non fiction in general too, like I can totally see him constantly going down internet rabbit holes if he lived in modern times ><
I can also see him getting super into a fiction novel, like SUPER into it. But scoffing at it at first, like "why would I read that silly story book it's a waste of my time" but then someone (cough laurens) convinces him to read it and he gets INTO it and can't put it down
ACTUALLY HOLD ON I think that might work WAY better the other way around, like Hamilton's always loved to read and he *finally* convinced Laurens to read one of his favourite books, and Laurens is skeptical but then gets OBSESSED (off topic lol sorry) (also maybe they both just loved to read idk man)
James Madison:
Ok so unfortunately I know next to nothing about the dude other than the joke that he was always sick
Soo not the best person to ask ;-;
But I can totally imagine him curled up in a big cozy armchair engrossed in a fiction novel
Which one? I would have NO clue 
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aeide · 1 year
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Tagged by the lovely @whereforartthoumisthios!
Rules: Tag some people you want to know better and/or catch up with, then answer the questions below! Last Song: Wait For It (Hamilton Soundtrack). It's been stuck in my head all day although I haven't listen to this soundtrack in a few years, and it's making me sad.
It also seems very fitting for Kassandra from AC Odyssey (aside from all the specific Hamilton envy). I mean come on, "and if there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died" IDK, IS THERE? fuck aletheia. (clearly, I'm having renewed feelings about all the staff stuff.) Three Ships: I own one boat ship and it is Kassandra/Brasidas. But I guess I can try to name two more: * Thanzag (Hades) * River and the Doctor (Doctor Who) Currently Reading: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro. Okay, well it's next to me but I haven't opened it yet. But I'm very excited for it—it is a chicanx adaptation of three plays: Oedipus El Rey (Oedipus Tyrannos), Mojada (Medea), and Electricidad (Elektra). Last Movie: no results. did you mean to say television? hang on, I'm sure I've watched a movie in the last year . . . it might have been Gladiator, which I watch a lot. Craving: love and acceptance??? no just kidding who needs those when I could be craving honeycomb ice cream. Tagging (with no obligation, and if I didn't tag you, please do this anyway if you want—I only didn't tag you because I already tagged you in 17 things this week SORRY I JUST REALLY LIKE YOU ALL): @captainkaltar, @cataliinaa, @wallsarecrumbling, @mimbotomy, @kebriones, @dogofthewisdom, @chin-up-spartan, @ashavah
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officialgleamstar · 7 months
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please never forget that i am extremely neurodivergent about oedipus rex, oedipus at colonus, and antigone. my favorite stuffed animal is literally named after oedipus. this trilogy is endlessly fascinating to me and i think about it constantly
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bretwalda-lamnguin · 5 months
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Antigone’s dutifulness is what Oedipus most loves about her. She looks after him, both out of love, and because it is her duty as a daughter to look after him in his old age. No matter what others say about him, how he is treated by society, Antigone will not abandon him. She loves her father, she gives everything to look after him, even though all he can return is love. But that to her is enough.
Oedipus on the other hand despises his sons. They did not speak for him when he was exiled from Thebes. They cast him aside because he was inconvenient, an unhappy reminder of the nature of their own birth and a curse upon their people. To Oedipus his daughters are better men than them.
Oedipus curses his sons to kill each other. He is delighted when he realises this is no longer a curse but prophecy, it will come true. But Antigone’s dutiful love is not reserved for Oedipus alone. She will fulfill her duty to her family, that includes her brothers just as much as Oedipus. She must bury them. Oedipus’ curse destroys the sons he hates, but it also kills the person he loves most, for the very reason he loves her the most.
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chthonic-cassandra · 2 years
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Do you have any favorite modern retellings of Greek myths (any medium)?
Yes! Good question. Here's my idiosyncratic list, keeping modern to 'within the last century':
Performance, all kinds: - Andrei Serban and Liz Swados' Trojan Women, created for La Mama ETC in 1974 and revived many times since then, theater production of my heart always, beside which all others will pale - Martha Graham's Clytemnestra - Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses - Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice - Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa - Athol Fugard's The Island - Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin's Hadestown
Text: - H.D. Helen in Egypt - Derek Walcott, Omeros - Caitlin Sweet, The Door in the Mountain and The Flame in the Maze - Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls - Gillian Hanscombe, Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue - Katharine Beutner, Alcestis - Samuel Delany, The Einstein Intersection - Rachel Swirsky, "A Memory of Wind" - Donna Jo Napoli, Sirena
Movies: - Medea, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Oedipus Rex, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - That's sort of it. I guess maybe also Black Orpheus? The Cocteau Orpheus trilogy? - and I have a weird fondness for the 2003 Helen of Troy miniseries
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tylermileslockett · 2 years
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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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