#The Theban Plays

[lets-get-lit]

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

- Sophocles, Antigone

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Sophocles #Antigone #Play #Greek Play #Fiction #The Theban Plays #greek literature

[macrolit]

The Theban Plays Sophocles

#sophocles #the theban plays #king oedipus #oedipus at colonus #antigone #greek #literature #old books #penguin books

[bayouette]

My favorite tragical girls: Antigone and Elektra

#I had to read Antigone in freshman year and I've been in love with greek tragedy ever since #antigone #elektra #the orestia #tagamemnon #creations #the theban plays #oh yeah I know this is in no way accurate. like I know very much. #dieu maudit

[gillieey]

⭐ sphynx lady ⭐

Drew this lady after reading the theban plays - she was kinda the moment rip

#greek myth #sphynx #greek mythology #the theban plays #sophocles #mythology #mythology art #illustration #creature art #creature illustration #character art #character design #greek plays #my art #artists on tumblr

[classically-tragic]

me n all my homies LOVE historical and cultural context that makes the narrative tragedy that much more agonizing

#the theban plays #antigone #clytemnestra #iphigenia #helen of troy #dean winchester

[gen-is-gone]

So was anybody gonna tell me that Jodie Whittaker and Chris Eccleston star in a filmed performance of Antigone or was I just supposed to learn that from a mean-spirited tumblr post myself?

#jodie whittaker #christopher eccleston #Antigone is my favorite of the three Theban plays #it looks amazing too #megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace

[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

[hungwy]

At the library and I just peeked into Philip Freeman's Searching for Sappho and learned about the Ancient Greek practice of ekthesis (exposure), leaving an unwanted infant somewhere to die, justified on the grounds that one is simply leaving the child's life to the will of the gods. Freeman notes that fathers often did ekthesis to infant daughters who were invaluable to the family in some way. It reminds me of the punishment of imprisonment/banishment that Creon gives to Antigone: "I will take her down some wild, desolate path never trod by men, and wall her up alive [...] There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death—who knows?—may just reprieve her from death." Maybe Sophocles had an ekthesis metaphor in mind?

#im sitting near the ancient civilization section so i did uh. also pick out the theban plays to quote that. lol

[babygirl-olympics]

#babygirlifying him #poll #babygirl olympics #spree #spree movie #kurt kunkle #kurt kunkle spree #oedipus #oedipus rex #three theban plays #greek myths #greek plays #greek tragedy #please vote

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Imagine being surprised when the main character of one of the most well known and influential tragic plays in history wins a competition poll about Most Tragic Characters over a fucking Lego ninjago character.

#‘Antigone won because of bots’ no #antigone won because the theban cycle is one of the most influential dramatic tragedies ever #and antigone is the greek play you’re most likely to have to read in high school #this is so stupid #caitie speaks #antigone #tagamemnon

[richkidcityfriends]

i want to read everything at once. which of course means i read nothing. obviously.

#i want to read the queens gambit and the lottery and night crawler and youth childhood dependency and the memory police #i want to reread meat market and brutes and sunburn and charmed life and the lives of christopher chant and lolita #and the haunting of hill house and her body and other parties and bestiary and the importance of music to girls and the theban plays #and so so so many more those are just the ones i have in a pile on my floor waiting to be reread but for some reason i CANT im going INSANE #also im super curious to read flick by geraldine meade bc i tried to start it when i was 14 but only got a couple chapters in before having #to stop bc i felt sick #but i dont actually remember why???? #like what happened that was so bad #i was not squeamish or anything id read tons of awful shit so #we will see when i get around to reading it again ig #mo rudaí

[britneyshakespeare]

... No baser custom ever arose among men

than money. It sacks cities and uproots men from their houses.

It is a masterful teacher in perverting the minds of just men,

inciting them to turn to disgraceful deeds.

Money has shown man how to give himself over to iniquity

and encouraged him to every impious deed.

Creon in Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Peter Constantine

#it's funny bc polynices' body was buried for completely opposite reasons #we love familial reverence and honor hell yeah #antigone #sophocles #oedipus cycle #theban plays #poetry #classical literature #greek theater #quotes #it's my brother's bday today. i would do the same for him

[pinkfey]

every bad bitch has that one greek tragedy that they feel cosmically connected to 😂😂 whose first read will follow them to the grave 🤣🤣

#mine is antigone sophocles was crazy as hell for that #the ‘he was my brother’ of it all……. #reading the theban plays in high school like ​yes this will change the trajectory of my life. whatever. #anyways.txt

[do-you-know-this-play]

#thebans #liz lochhead #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

[sexiestfishermanalive]

MY TOP 10 BOOKS/SERIES I READ THIS YEAR BECAUSE I WANT AND I CAN

10. The Oresteia (Agamemnon, Liberation Bearer's, Eumenides) - Aeshylus

9. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School - S. Reyes

8. A Spartan's Sorrow - H. Lynn

7. The Theban Plays* (Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigony) - Sophocles

*(YES I KNOW THIS IS TECHNICLY NOT A SERIES AND yes i know the order I have is different then the order I gave on the cover but i listed how I read them aka how they go chronologicly, not the order in which they were published)

6. The Sunbearer Trials - A. Thomas

5. Baker Thief - C. Arsenault

4. Loveless - A. Osmeman

3. Pandora's Jar - N. Haynes

2. Locked Tomb (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth) - T. Muir

1. Poppy War (The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God) - R. F. Kuang

#top books of 2022 #the oresteia #the lesbiana's guide to catholic school #a spartan's sorrow #theban plays #the sunbearer trials #baker thief #loveless #pandora's jar #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #locked tomb #poppy war

[finelythreadedsky]

hey so do we take antigone 49-52 to suggest that oedipus actually killed himself by blinding himself when he discovered the truth? ie contradicting the version sophocles later used at the end of oedipus rex, that he went into exile, and actually precluding the entire premise of oedipus at colonus?

#i know in the abstract the theban plays 'contradict' each other bc theyre not actually a trilogy #is this how? #i think the only other major 'contradictions' between plays i can think of are between authors #like how euripides' phoenician women has jocasta alive #and obvs the electra plays are incompatible #antigoneblogging #well i guess iphigenia at aulis and in tauris dont work together but arent explicitly contradictory #mine