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Grief Lessons: Four Plays: Four Plays By Euripi (New York Review Books (Paperback))

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H of H” opens on Amphitryon exiting an Airstream trailer, and the Theban general delivers a monologue that makes plain right away that we aren’t in Athens anymore: “By a thread hangs our fate. Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so. The women at the center of this shattering play-turned-graphic novel lose husbands, sons, brothers and grandsons among them, brutally.

In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides' latest tragedies. A fun tidbit from my Greek Tragedy teacher, who is in love with Greek double meanings: Hippolytus derives from 'horses' and the verb λυω or 'luo', which can mean either 'to release' or 'to destroy'; it is also ambiguous whether 'hippos' is the subject or the object. Anyways, Alkestis is a fantastic character despite how little she speaks (literally, by the end), resembling Megara in Herakles. This event will be online only, live-streamed on the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) YouTube channel. Instead of actors on a stage, we have Bruno’s dogs and cows (the captive Trojan women), a surging sea (Poseidon), a pair of overalls (Athena), a poplar and sapling (Hektor’s wife Andromache and their son Astyanax), Helen alternately as a silver fox and a hand mirror, and Menelaos as “some sort of gearbox clutch or coupling mechanism.The independent press New Directions published that beautiful volume and this new one; Knopf published “Float,” a collection of loose chapbooks drifting in an aquarium-like case. Hecuba’s children were killed and she was betrayed by her friend, but she was able to deliver fulfilling revenge on the man who betrayed her.

They read quickly and I was entertained throughout - as much as one reading about infanticide and suicide can be entertained, of course. is nothing less than brilliant—unfalteringly sharp in diction, audacious and judicious in taking liberties.Person of the week in every Greek opinion poll,” Disney’s Motown-style muses sing, capturing the contemporary image of the mythical figure. Moreover, Euripides forces the reader to consider what to do after grief and trauma, and argues that the only way out is to continue living. Ultimately, it is his friend Theseus, whom Herakles has recently rescued from Hades, who comes to his aid. Hippolyta's name would have been 'he who sets horses free'; Hippolytos' name, though, means something more like 'he who the horses destroy'. And you defiant old men will be groaning not just for Herakles' children but for your own house as it falls.

Whatever “H of H” might mean—it isn’t clear—the book is really “H of C,” “Herakles of Carson,” a version that only this one bizarre and brilliant brain could produce.I am come, the son of Zeus, to this Theban land, Dionysos, to whom the daughter of Kadmos once gave birth, Semele, midwived by lightning-borne fire. The Bakkhai ends not with a figurative display of such rage but with a literal cutting off of a human head. The ending of this play is deeply strange and off-putting: after a play full of tragedy in her life, Hekabe is told she will be turned into a dog.

Carson does not alter her style to reflect the very different texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides.This fate is horrifying, but what I found most horrifying about it was its ambiguity: she has received a prophecy about her fate, but we shall never really see the truth of it. Rosanna] Bruno’s shaggy black-and-white drawings evoke palimpsests, often with visible pencil marks underneath.

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