#aeschylus — Public Fediverse posts
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Jury Duty: Theatre You Cannot Leave
The envelope looks like a bill and behaves like a warrant. It arrives in the plain mail between a seed catalog and a credit offer, your name printed the way only a government database can print it, and inside is a summons: report to the courthouse on a Monday in March, at half past eight in the morning, prepared to stay. You did not audition for this production. You signed no contract, negotiated no fee, read no script. The paper tells you what happens if you ignore it, and what happens is contempt: a fine, a cell, or both. Of all the performances running in America, this is the only one that conscripts its audience. By the end of the week you may be deciding whether a stranger loses liberty, money, children, or, in the courtrooms that still ask the question, life. The republic keeps one room in which that decision belongs to twelve people who did not volunteer that morning, and every seat in that room is filled by force of law. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/31/jury-duty-theatre-you-cannot-leave/
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@skua And you used one of my favorite terms -- #Eumenides! I wrote a play in college (titled "Vendetta") based on #Aeschylus' #Oresteia, with #Athena as a slick lawyer and #Apollo as a mayor on the take!
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The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic
By Arifa AkbarBridge theatre, London Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays
#Theatre #Bridgetheatre #SimonStone #Aeschylus #Stage #Culture #DavidMorrissey #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar
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Top ten posts in June 2026 https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/03/top-ten-posts-in-june-2026/ #666 #absolutelyFree #aeschylus #AgathosDaimon #aleisterCrowley #alexandria #allImplications #allParties #ancientGreekTexts #Antiphon #anyAct #anySexualPractices #approvedOrNo #aristotle #authority #beast #bestPosts #bestTen #called #CaroleRaddato #Catacombs #CatrionaMcAra #ChloeAridjis #classicalGreece #coEmerge #communicate #conjuring #conquer #contemporaryArts #CorinneHalbert #creativeIntellectuals #death #desire #desires #developedInTandem #diaryOfADrugFiend #direct #distorted #diy #doItYourself #DoubleEdgeTheatre #dreamInterpretation #dreams #Egypt #embodyingADesire #ethically #everyIntermediatelySexedIndividual #everyMan #everyWoman #extremelyVulgar #fadedIntoObscurity #feminist #figurative #film #fullyAware #fundraiser #hackReality #hackerEthos #heartilyAgree #HeidiSopinka #hermeneuticsOfSimilarity #Herodotus #hiddenMeaning #HippocraticDoctors #historicalRelationships #homer #howTo #indirect #interpret #JDamask #JohnColleton #JournalOfCinemaAndMediaStudies #June2026 #KomElShoqafa #lateTwentiethCentury #legally #LeonoraCarrington #lessWholesomeNames #liberAlVelLegis #life #literalExpression #living #LucySkaer #LynnLu #magicalMedium #magicalMetaphors #magicallyTinged #mediaForms #meet #metaphorical #methodologies #MirjamEKotwick #NewComment #newTechnologies #obviouslySchizophrenic #occultBeliefs #outrageousLies #patinaOfMagic #photography #physiologically #plato #PMPress #practices #prestige #providedOnlyThat #radio #rational #religiously #responsibilities #ripAWole #SamanthaSweeting #Self #ShiraChess #signifyMeaning #spinning #spokeUpAgainst #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #symbolic #TPolyphilus #TShirt #Technopaganism #telegraphy #television #TheAncientInterpretationOfDreams #TheAntifascistTarot #TheBookOfTheLaw #theFabricOfReality #theInternet #thePeople #TheTremblingOfALeaf #TildaSwinton #toBoot #toExceed #toTheFull #topPosts #topTen #traitors #userCentric #weiserAntiquarianBooks #WolfAtTheDoor -
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"From many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of #Ares, destruction double-armed, a gory pair."
#Aeschylus, Agamemnon 638🏛 #Mars intaglio, #Wales Museum
@antiquidons @mythology
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« Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. »
— Aeschylus
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/737083940521771008/justice-voiceless-unseen-seeth-thee-when-thou
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« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »— Aeschylus
#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom
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« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »— Aeschylus
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« Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. »
— Aeschylus
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/737083940521771008/justice-voiceless-unseen-seeth-thee-when-thou
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« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »— Aeschylus
#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom
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« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »— Aeschylus