Rebecca P-H’s Reviews > The Libation Bearers > Status Update

ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης; well, Athens.

ok so the text of the Perseus strophe is definitely WAY too uncertain to ever base an argument on it. noted. Γοργοῦς isn't even in any of the manuscripts!!!

Zeitlin (rightly) makes much of the strophe about the Lemnian women but I feel like we're overlooking not just the Althaea strophe with the threat posed by a mother to her son but also the Scylla strophe about daughters as a potential threat to their fathers if allowed to grow up into women with ties outside their natal families... that's why Electra falls silent and exits the stage and never returns

ἆρ᾽ ἐξεγείρῃ τοῖσδ᾽ ὀνείδεσιν, πάτερ; / ἆρ᾽ ὀρθὸν αἴρεις φίλτατον τὸ σὸν κάρα;
moment of genuine uncertainty where the audience doesn't yet know whether the necromancy's working or not!!!

kommos time ❤️

Euripides can make fun of the footprint thing all he wants, but Aeschylus is just operating on the idea that the tragic body is inherently a manufactured body that is only what it is agreed by convention to be. A sister and a brother can have the same size feet, sure, why not. They're both adult men under their masks anyway.