#euripides
Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Jason, having seen Medea kill and dismember her brother and also kill Pelias for him: Probably I can just divorce her
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“Someone is taking, is taking me (don’t you see him?) away to the court of the dead. It is winged Hades, glowering from beneath his dark brows. What do you want? Let me go! Ah, what a journey it is that I, unhappiest of women, am making!”
EuripidesAlc. 259-263, trans. David Kovacs
A girl from Thrace who died at the age of twenty in the influenza epidemic of 1917 was heard to shout out, an hour before she died, “There he is! A young man is coming with a spear to cut me up! Bring me the long knife. He is going to slaughter me.” She then engaged in an imaginary but fierce fight.
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition by Margaret Aleixou, 37-38.
Signs as Euripides’ tragedies
Aries: Heracles
Taurus: Iphigenia in Taurus (lol)
Gemini: Hecuba
Cancer: Hyppolytus
Leo: Orestes
Virgo: The Suppliants
Libra: Alcestis
Scorpio: Electra
Sagittarius: Andromache
Capricorn: Ion
Aquarius: The Bacchae
Pisces: Medea
I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part… I want to see them wrestle… Bring back big buff bicep philosophy!!!
Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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- Euripides, “Erakles”
“I’ll take care of you.”
“That’s rotten work.”
“Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
-Pylades & Orestes in Euripides