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- lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

Yves Bonnefoy, tr. by Anthony Rudolf, from The Selected Poems; “The Ravine,”

What I Like About Poetry by Ellen Bass

Posters for the Greek theater of Siracusa. Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960)

some house of atreus doodles

thinking about this sculpture of orestes curled at the feet of athena's altar and going a bit crazy insane

  Ancient Greek theater Masks

something about manhood as passive and womanhood as active in relation to memory is just… such an incredible way of framing things

but her curse is to be the stuff of stories, not a storyteller. the very epitome of woman, yet cut off from the purpose of womanhood within epic.

Odysseus and Athena by Eberhard & Elfriede Binder.

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Helen, watching Troy burn

In at least one version of the myth of Iphigenia, as her father Agamemnon prepared to sacrifice her to secure favorable winds for his ships’ warpath to Troy, Artemis whisked the maid away at the last moment and replaced her with a deer. It is said Iphigenia became the priestess of Artemis at Tauros, or she was elevated to Artemis’ immortal companion as the goddess Hecate. [x]

Virgil is legit crazy for doing this, for having everyone just stuck in a time loop between texts, pyrrhus killing priam while invoking achilles who killed hector, a son killing a father while invoking a father who killed a son, the cycle of blood and death and dishonor literally never ending and recalled in the symmetry of this scene against achilles standing over dying hector promising to defile his body, pyrrhus standing over priam telling him to take this story to achilles in hell, the symmetry. the ugly symmetry the matching stains of blood the horror written 1000 years apart

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