#ancient greek plays

[therivercocytus]

classicists will be like “yo you gotta check out this awesome play” and show u some shit like “the particulary red butterfly + sad women by aristocracy”

#ancient greece #ancient greek plays #classicism

[onwingsofwords]

finished reading euripides' "helen" today and:

broke: helen of troy caused the trojan war

woke: paris kidnapped/stole helen, causing the trojan war

bespoke: the gods specifically engineered the trojan war to see who the greatest heroes were and to lower the human population

#classical mythology #song of achilles #the iliad #greek mythology memes #greek mythlogy retelling #trojan women #trojan war #helen of troy #helen of sparta #greek myth memes #greek mythology #ancient greek plays #euripedes

[nepobabyeurydice]

O you bright sky of heaven, you swift-winged breezes, you river-waters, and infinite laughter of the waves of ocean, O universal mother Earth!

— Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus

#promethus bound #aeschylus #ancient greek mythology #ancient greek plays #quotes #spiled ink

[marvelouslyem]

everytime I think about the iliad my heart goes <3 Hector <3 but everytime I think about the song of Achilles my heart loses it’s love for Hector ever so slightly

#the iliad #hector #the song of achilles #achilles #ancient greek plays #em’s

[bones-ivy-breath]

Agamemnon by Aiskhylos (tr. Anne Carson)

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Persuasion drives him on—she is child of ruin.

#quote #typography #agamemnon #aiskhylos #anne carson #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #ancient greek mythology #ancient greece #ancient greek literature #ancient greek plays #dark things #original post #plays

[tadpoleponders]

Some thumbnails (?) for the costumes of the Furies from “the Eumenides” (Ancient Greek play) but these Furies are common in a lot of Greek mythos I don’t think they originate in that play.

This is the reference I used to make the costumes which is actually a scene from the play on a vase. I played around with maybe a jewel tone for fun, a more subdued version of that color scheme that was a little more realistic (?) and then one which is mostly just white and grey

#orestes #Eumenides #agamemnon #ancient greek #greek mythology #Ancient Greek plays #the furies #megaera #tisiphone #alecto #the erinyes #costume design #I’m probably never gonna be an actual designer #for any kind of play at least not any time soon #but it would be cool #one can dream

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Aristophanes' Lysistrata by Norman Lindsay (1930)

#norman lindsay #art #illustration #golden age of illustration #1930s #1930s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #australian artist #australian art #plays #greek plays #ancient greece #aristophanes #lysistrata #classic art

[thingsphoenix21]

Persephone: Hey Thanatos. Thanatos: Hey Seph. Persephone: You missed me? *Thanatos grabs her and they go into their gossip session* Hades: She's my wife I should be the one who sees her first. Thanatos: There's a list. Hermes passed it around. Nyx: Yeah I'm after Caront. Hypnos: Oh so I'm after you mother. Hades: There's a list? What? I never had a list. Hypnos: Sir she's way cooler than you. Mynthe: Plus we don't like you as much as her. Hades: True, tell me when it's my turn.

#incorrect greek gods #greek myths #greek gods #greek incorrect quotes #greek mythology #ancient greece #ancient greek #persephone #everyone adores her in the underworld #hades knows he's playing second #thanatos and seph have gossip sessions #they have the persephone list #right now they're making it for this fall and winter

[finelythreadedsky]

i really have to get into the distribution of roles among the three actors. just saw a footnote saying that the only other voice in antigone that matches the authority and assurance with which antigone speaks is tiresias, who would have presumably been played by the same actor. well.

#i saw a production of antigone recently where the director (and maybe translator?) was clearly very nervous about minor characters #and the tendency in ancient tragedy (under the limit of three actors) to have a character show up for a scene and never be mentioned again #but tiresias was the one place that didnt play out and the only place they were comfortable having a one-scene character #how is a greek chorus like a lawyer #mine #bodycostume

[sarafangirlart]

I really like the idea that when gods walk among mortals they’re still significantly taller than them, not cartoonishly large like that awful Gods of Egypt movie, but in the taller than average basketball player kinda way.

#greek mythology #greek pantheon #ancient greek mythology #greek goddess #athena goddess of wisdom #athena goddess #athena #apollo greek mythology #apollo god #apollo #orestes #the orestia #greek plays #greek goddesses #greek myths #hera goddess #greek myth #greek tragedy #greek gods

[asocial-skye]

as the holidays come to a close, i'm left to wonder....

how does religion work in the pjo universe?

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo hoo toa #pjo fandom #percy pjo #annabeth pjo #like i know rick riordan is a white goyische man #so he probably didn't think this through and just assumed that they all celebrated Christmas culturally #but how does religion play in the pjo universe #even if you're like christian do you just leave religion when you come to camp #like i understand that most kids are pretty irreligious and probably won't care about leaving religion #but as someone who went to religious school there's at least one kid who is devout as fuck and'll just keep practicing #also like plenty of religions practiced today are the same age as the ancient greek religion- ex. judaism and hinduism #how does that clash work-there were exchanges of jewish and hindu culture in the ancient greek era so it's safe to assume jewish and hindu #half-bloods would exist #also on the hindu can of worms- we are also a polytheistic religion #does belief in that renounce any connection to the greek gods #also the comedic potential of the clash in SO underutilized #i can see luke at some point just scraping the food into the hermes fire saying 'accept my offering- o g-d who is NOT greek' #or some other camper reciting the brahmarpanam or offering Du'a while offering food to the gods #you can't tell me at least one kid yelled up at the sky 'well i'm converting now! fuck you dad!'

[kareenvorbarra]

...I must confront Apollo with his wrongs. To force a girl Against her will and and afterward betray! To leave a child to die which has been born In secret! No! Do not act thus. But since You have the power, seek the virtuous path. All evil men are punished by the gods. How then can it be just for you to stand Accused of breaking laws you have yourselves Laid down for men? But if--here I suppose What could not be--you gave account on earth For wrongs which you have done to women, you, Apollo and Poseidon and Zeus who rules In heaven, payment of your penalties Would see your temples empty, since you are Unjust to others in pursuing pleasure Without forethought. And justice now demands That we should not speak ill of men if they But imitate what the gods approve, but those Who teach men their examples.

Ion (from Ion by Euripides, translated by R. F. Willetts)

#okay i FINALLY read this play and i liked it a lot. there is so much going on here #but right after i read it i found some discourse that i sometimes stumble across in conversations about paganism #about how you can't treat gods like characters who do good or bad things #and that's sort of true? it doesn't really make sense to look at gods in (for example) greek mythology and treat them as wholly good or bad #and i think this applies whether you engage with them as literary characters or as gods (or both). adaptations that do this annoy me! #BUT. you cannot act like ancient societies didn't have moral questions and discussions about their own gods. they absolutely did #ion #apollo #euripides #queue

[nepobabyeurydice]

Lament the greatness of the glory of your time-hallowed honor

—Prometheus Bound, (408), Aeschylus

#quotes #prometheus #prometheus bound #aeschylus #ancient greek plays #greek plays #greek mythology #NED STARK????

[obsessiveacademic]

"It's better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially" - The secret history, Donna Tartt

I unfortunately take this quote too literaly. Hence my ever growing row of unread and unstudied books. ( except the Latin textbook that shit is fun)

#I want to read but I'd rather play minecraft #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia #classics #books #classic academia #latin #ancient greek #donna tartt #studyblr #the secret history

[bones-ivy-breath]

Alcestis by Euripides (tr. Richard Aldington)

#alcestis #euripides #richard aldington #quote #typography #literature #dark academia #classic academia #dark things #the self #bodymind #ancient greek literature #ancient greek mythology #mythology #plays

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations form Lysistrata by Norman Lindsay (1930)

#norman lindsay #art #illustration #golden age of illustration #1930s #1930s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #australian art #australian artist #books #book illustration #ancient greece #greek plays #lysistrata #classic art