Status Updates From Hecuba

"As the waves cover your head, you'll see how your life is just a loan that's come due."

"If I could, I’d grow tongues in my arms and hands
and hair, in the soles of my feet - a thousand tongues
all talking, all crying together, in one voice clinging
to your knees, begging you, imploring you[.]"

"Stunningly new; newly stunning, what I see here. I see all now."

"Don't disturb my dusty grief."

"She is my solace. She is my staff, my nurse, my guide. She is my Troy."

نمایشنامه‌ی ششم از هم‌خوانی هفت نمایشنامه.

از ذوق روی هوام. بالاخره یکی از نمایشنامه‌های عهد باستان رو خوندم.
در اسرع وقت ادیپ شهریار رو هم باید بخونم.

چقدر جنگ، اساطیر، شخصیت‌های مختلف و کلی چیز خفن و سامان تراژیک خفنی داشت.
رو هوا هستم.
باید سریع یا مختصری بنویسم و بیشتر بهش فکر نکنم، و الا انقدر گنده می‌شه یه مرور ساده نوشتن که زیرش غرق می‌شم.

did not expect to get so fixated on a character who never even appears on stage... anyway I think this is a play about Cassandra

pretty sure Euripides is just flexing what he can do with dead bodies on stage at this point, which is great for me (person who is writing a dissertation chapter on dead bodies on stage)

the amount of lamenting about being left completely childless that Hecuba is doing while Cassandra is right there in the next tent over...

κἄγωγ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὐκ ἔθνῃσκον οὗ μ᾽ ἐχρῆν θανεῖν goes so hard. "I am someone who did not die when I should have died" is such an Anne Carson line that I didn't expect that it was such a close translation of the actual Greek.

~ Friends, I am destroyed.
And so would I see Spartan Helen.
Her eyes flashed, her lovely lustful eyes, and she shamed,
she burnt Troy’s blessedness.