c r u e n t u s

Orestes by Euripides, 408 BCE (“…μὴ θεαί μ᾽ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι.”)

trans. Michael Wodhull, 1782 (“Lest those Goddesses should seize me/ With frenzy.”)

trans. T. A. Buckley, 1858 (“I fear lest the Goddesses should stop me with their torments.”)

trans. E. P. Coleridge, 1891 (“I am afraid the goddesses will prevent me by madness.”)

trans. Arthur S. Way, 1898 (“Lest the Fiends by madness stay me.”)

trans. Philip Vellacott, 1972 (“This: suppose the Furies drive me mad?”)

trans. Kenneth McLeish, 1997 (“If the goddesses come… another fit…”)

trans. David Kovacs, 2002 (“…the fear that the goddesses may seize me with frenzy.”)

trans. Anne Carson, 2009 (“The ghastly goddessess—they’ll send my wits astray.”)

Hello! I made a google drive folder of Anne Carson works! These are the free ones available through my university library, so it’s mostly her more academic stuff like Eros the Bittersweet and Economy of the Unlost. There’s also some fun poetry and an interview in there that tracks VERY well with my impression of her lol

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YLqeMNkwTNmkZHFVMvibAF-7Z2NiolO5?usp=sharing

hot librarian from a 90s movie who wears her wire-frame glasses on the tip of her nose

half-dead fruit tree

person holding a huge leafy potted plant in their arms while rushing abt in a big city

glamorous lady in an expensive-looking coat & burgundy beret staring tragically out the window of a train

chipped porcelain plate

person u meet & make polite conversation with while waiting for a concert to start and then never see again

girl that puts her hair up in a ponytail and swings her head a little harder than usual when walking

the friend of a friend of a friend

ikea shopper

Beautiful Sintra, Portugal.

St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

This may be the place I miss most in Bristol. My favourite church in England and I’m not alone, Elizabeth I was very keen too.