People Will Be Like I Love Greek Mythology But I Hate Everything That Involves Incest, Infidelity, Violence,

People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

Me, a year ago: oh, greek mythology, i used to love it when I was 10 or so, I think it would be fun to reread some of myths now uncensored, but i really don't think it will be as interesting as it was before, like, i know all the plots and characters, so there is nothing new for me.

Me, now: I'm rereading the illiad and the Odyssey for the third time in a third different translation. I've already downloaded tens of other Greek plays. For over three months by now, I'm lying awake in bad thinking about characters from these texts and coming up with headcanons and scenarios for them. I started to write drafts of the illiad and the odyssey inspired fics on English, which I've never done before. I'm this close to starting learning Greek, so i can read all of the materials in the original. I need to study biology, but now I can't, I'm-

Oedipus Rex  (1957)

This adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy (in a translation by William Butler Yeats) looks almost the way it would have when staged in the 5th century BC. Stentorian oration and carefully posed tableaux abound, giving the film an uncanny atmosphere somewhere between a black mass and puppet theater.

Thorfinn 💛

tfw you join the army and someone else has the same name as you, then the next day everyone starts calling you "Lesser Ajax"