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Only 4 days and I manage to catch the final performance. Go me!!
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The Mythology of Perseus in the Works of the Mythographers
„In the case of the Perseus myth, the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes helpfully attribute extensive accounts to [Pherekydes of Athens] by name in the three fragments below, where frr. 10 and 12 occur without a break: Pherecydes in Book 2 records that Acrisius marries Eurydice daughter of Lacedaemon; from them is born Danaë. When Acrisius asked the oracle about a male child, the god at Pytho responded that he would not have a male child, but that one would be born to his daughter, and by him it was fated that he would die. On returning to Argos Acrisius makes a bronze chamber in the courtyard of his house, underground, where he brings Danaë with her nurse, in which he guarded her, so that a child should not be born from her. But Zeus desired the girl, and flows like gold from the roof, and she receives it in her lap; and revealing himself, Zeus has intercourse with the girl. From them is born Perseus, and Danaë and the nurse bring him up, hiding him from Acrisius. When Perseus was three or four years old, he heard his voice as he was playing, and after summoning Danaë with the Nurse by means of his servants, he kills the Nurse, and takes Danaë with the child to the altar of Zeus of the Hearth. Alone, he asks her from what source she had conceived the child. She said, from Zeus. He is not persuaded, but places her into a chest with the child; and after shutting it, he casts it into the sea. And they were carried along and arrive at the island of Seriphos. And Dictys son of Peristhenes draws them out when he is fishing with a net. Then Danaë supplicates him to open the chest. And he, on opening it, and learning who they are, brings them to his home, and brings then up as if they were his relatives. For Dictys and Polydectes were children of Androthoe daughter of Castor, and of Peristhenes son of Damastor, son of Nauplius the son of Poseidon and Amymone, as Pherecydes says in Book 1. Pherecydes fr. 10 Fowler
— Sabine Müller, "Argead Women", The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World
*Kynnane and Adea Eurydike's military skills owed to the fact that Kynnane's mother Audata was an Illyrian princess who had been trained in warfare since childhood and raised her daughter the same way.
Olympias, Eurydike & Macedonian Royal Women with Dr. Elizabeth D. Carney
So, yesterday, I got to sit down with Beth Carney, who joined me from her New York apartment (@kneelbeforeclefairy), to talk about her most recent monograph, on Eurydike, Philip’s mother. But as usual when chatting with Beth, we wandered all over the place, including the court more broadly, Olympias, Barsine, the Sisters, Hadea Eurydike, etc.
On Sophocles’ Eurydice, mother of Haemon and wife of Creon:
Eurydice’s cries and words are mobile. Through the Messenger, they leave the confines of the palace. This woman accepts her confinement, but her words do not. […] Sophocles’ Antigone opens the palace door to reveal the cost of polis life and membership. Its name? Eurydice, which means wide justice. […] Eurydice haunts all forces of narrow justice. If she does so, it is surely because she crosses boundaries. When she kills herself by dagger, for example, she violates tragedy’s gendered division of death […]
Antigone, Interrupted — Bonnie Honig
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"Alexander I of Macedon may have promoted his own image as a royal schemer. Many of his descendants fit his Odyssean prototype. These qualities enabled survival for some, like Perdiccas II, while others, most notably Philip II, were employed these same traits with much greater success. Was there a female version of this prototype? This question is unanswerable about any royal woman before Eurydice, but […] she could indeed be understood as somewhat Penelopean.
The circumstances of Eurydice and Penelope were hardly identical. Eurydice was an actual widow, whereas Penelope feared that she had been widowed; Alexander II actually became king, though only on the threshold of maturity, whereas Telemachus, though of roughly the same age, had not yet become king; Eurydice’s sexual fidelity was brought into question, as we have seen, whereas Penelope’s was not, ultimately, jeopardized. Eurydice and Penelope are, however, similar enough to be illuminating. Penelope moves between the world of women and the male court; she dares to confront her male enemies publicly (16.409– 434) but is impressed when her son tells her to return to her quarters, thus asserting his male adulthood (1.356–364). Her dealings with her son are complicated exactly because Telemachus is not quite a man yet no longer a boy and Penelope had promised Odysseus that she would not remarry until her son had reached some sort of adulthood (18.269– 270). Penelope does and does not want to remarry (e.g., 19.524–534) and her sexuality is often the focus of the narrative (18.158–168), yet her faithfulness to her husband and to her son’s future helped to preserve Telemachus’ inheritance and Odysseus’ household, despite the serious depredations of the suitors. She improvised her way, often by trickery and with some ambiguity, through a prolonged period of instability. Thinking about Penelope helps us to understand Eurydice’s role in the events of her day: she was both a public and a private figure, powerful and yet passive, manipulative and manipulated, her reputation called into question and yet ultimately celebrated."
— Elizabeth D. Carney, Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power
Eurydice, the daughter of Sirras (c. 410–c. 340s BCE), the wife of Amyntas III, king of Macedonia, and the mother of Philip II and grandmother of Alexander the Great, played a notable role in the public life of ancient Macedonia. She is the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, although she would hardly be the last. Her career marked a turning point in the role of royal women in Macedonian monarchy, one that coincided with the emergence of Macedonia as a great power in the Hellenic world.
— Elizabeth D. Carney, Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power / Ibid, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia
Not only did Eurydice intervene in a public and aggressive way on behalf of her sons, playing dynastic politics with some skill, but her dedications around Vergina also speak to a new public role for Argead women. It is also noteworthy that her role and prominence seem to have been greatest not in the reign of her husband but in those of her sons and in their minorities. The remarkably hostile tradition preserved in Justin is testimony to how unusual and threatening her actions were. Nonetheless, Eurydice succeeded in her goals. All the remaining rulers of the Argead dynasty were her descendants.
Orpheus und Eurydike
Orpheus und Eurydike · Griechische Sage · Liebe
Niemand war dem sangeskundigen Orpheus gleich, dem Apoll selber ein Saitenspiel geschenkt hatte. Wenn Orpheus es zu seinem Gesang ertönen ließ, dann kamen die Tiere des Waldes herbei, den wundersamen Klängen zu lauschen, und man sagt, selbst die Bäume und die leblosen Steine wurden von der Zaubergewalt der Töne bewegt. Eurydike, die holdselige Flussnymphe, war die Gattin des Sängers. Nur allzu schnell wurde das Glück der Liebenden zerstört. Eines Tages, als Eurydike mit ihren Freundinnen, den Nymphen, am Flussufer spielte, wurde sie von einer giftigen Natter in die Ferse gebissen, und auf der Stelle sank sie sterbend zu Boden. Orpheus konnte sich vor Schmerz nicht fassen. Vergeblich suchte er Trost in seiner Sangeskunst, vergeblich lockte er aus seinem Saitenspiel die schönsten Töne, so dass alle Wesen der Natur ringsum in sein Wehklagen einstimmten: weder sein Lied noch sein Gebet brachte die tote Gattin zurück. Da fasste Orpheus einen Entschluss, den noch kein Mensch vor ihm auszuführen gewagt hatte. In den Tartaros, ins Reich der Schatten, wollte er hinabsteigen und den Herrscher der Unterwelt bitten, ihm die geliebte Gattin zurückzugeben. Schaurig umschwebten ihn die Schatten der Toten, als er die Pforte der Unterwelt hinter sich gelassen hatte. Aber mutig schritt er durch die Schrecken des Totenreichs, bis er vor Hades' Thron stand. Zum Klang der Leier brachte sodann der Sänger seine klagende Bitte vor. Er sang von seiner unendlichen Liebe zu der schönen Gattin und von seinem unermesslichen Schmerz, der stärker sei, als ein Mensch ertragen könne. Er gemahnte den Beherrscher der Schatten, dass auch er selbst sich einst von der Liebe habe bezwingen lassen, als er Persephone geraubt und sie zu seiner Gemahlin gemacht habe. Noch nie war ähnliches im Hades geschehen! Rings um den klagenden Sänger scharten sich die wesenlosen Schatten und - weinten. Tantalos vergaß, nach der entweichenden Quelle zu haschen, die Danaiden, die zur Strafe für ihre Untaten ein durchlöchertes Fass zu füllen hatten, ließen ab von ihrem vergeblichen Mühen, und Sisyphos, angelockt von den Zaubertönen des Gesanges, saß müssig auf seinem Felsblock und lauschte. Selbst die furchtbaren Eumeniden, die Rachegöttinnen, die keines Menschen Bitte je nachgegeben hatten, sagt man, waren zu Tränen gerührt. Noch niemals war es geschehen, dass das finstere Herrscherpaar des Hades sich von Mitleid hatte bestimmen lassen. Die göttliche Macht des Gesanges jedoch überwältigte sie. Persephone winkte Eurydikes Schatten, der sich daraufhin mit unsicheren Schritten ihrem Thron näherte. »Nur weil deine große Liebe uns bewegt«, wandte die Totenkönigin sich an Orpheus, »erfüllen wir deine Bitte. Deine Gattin möge dir in die Oberwelt folgen! Aber wisse: Wenn du auf dem Weg den Blick zu ihr zurückwendest, bevor du das Tor durchschritten hast, so ist sie dir für alle Zeit verloren!« Schnellen Schrittes machte sich Orpheus auf den Rückweg. Bald jedoch wurde er von Zweifeln ergriffen: folgte Eurydike wirklich seinen Spuren? Angst und Sehnsucht quälten ihn auf dem schroffen, finsteren Wege. Verzweifelt lauschte er auf den Atemzug der Geliebten und auf ein Rauschen ihres Gewandes. Doch ringsum lastete grässliche Totenstille. Zuletzt wusste er sich nicht mehr zu bezwingen; von Liebe, Sorge und Angst überwältigt, wandte er sich nach der Geliebten um. Da stand Eurydike vor ihm, traurig und zärtlich schaute sie ihn an. Doch als Orpheus sehnsüchtig die Arme ausbreitete, um die Geliebte an sich zu ziehen, wich sie zurück. In ohnmächtiger Verzweiflung griff Orpheus ins Leere. Wie von Sinnen stürzte er den steilen Pfad zurück bis an den Styx, den Fluss, der die Unterwelt durchfließt. Hier gebot Charon, der Fährmann, ihm Halt. Diesmal weigerte er sich, Orpheus über den schwarzen Strom zu fahren. Sieben Tage und sieben Nächte saß Orpheus am Ufer und versuchte, die Unterirdischen durch Bitten und Klagen und flehende Lieder zu neuer Milde zu stimmen. Die Götter aber blieben unerbittlich. Orpheus und Eurydike · Griechische Sage · Liebe Read the full article