Status Updates From The Persians

I'm really reading this for the necromancy and for Xerxes' costume but wow Afroditi Angelopoulou was not kidding about the materiality of Persian bodies and the Greek terrain. need to think more about what it means to conceive of Persian manpower as fabric that can be ripped and torn and dyed red.

i’d be mad af if my ghost was brought back bc my son failed in battle 😒😒

you can't tell me that "but I'd like to know, my friends: where in the world IS Athens?" wasn't a hilarious line when performed in Athens to an audience of mostly Athenians

'τόδ᾽ στέγος ἀρχαῖον' come on that's the skene

calling the army περσέπτολις, "city-sacking" but also simultaneously "Persepolis"/"Persian city"!