#aeschylus — Public Fediverse posts

The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic
By Arifa Akbar

Bridge 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

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/15/the-oresteia-review-bridge-theatre-london-david-morrissey-mary-louise-parker

#Theatre #Bridgetheatre #SimonStone #Aeschylus #Stage #Culture #DavidMorrissey #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar

The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic
By Arifa Akbar

Bridge 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

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/15/the-oresteia-review-bridge-theatre-london-david-morrissey-mary-louise-parker

#Theatre #Bridgetheatre #SimonStone #Aeschylus #Stage #Culture #DavidMorrissey #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar

The Voice Behind the Shield: When the Adversary Carries a Truth

https://legawa.com/2026/07/08/the-voice-behind-the-shield-when-the-adversary-carries-a-truth/

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
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

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
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

« 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

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #allseeing

« 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

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #allseeing

« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736721551478669312/justice-turns-the-scale-for-those-to-whom-through

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom

« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736721551478669312/justice-turns-the-scale-for-those-to-whom-through

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom

« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736554691400499200/swift-footed-is-the-approach-of-fate-and-none-can

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #fate #karma #poetry

« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736554691400499200/swift-footed-is-the-approach-of-fate-and-none-can

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #fate #karma #poetry

« 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

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #allseeing

« 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

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #allseeing

« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736721551478669312/justice-turns-the-scale-for-those-to-whom-through

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom

« Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom’s gain. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736721551478669312/justice-turns-the-scale-for-those-to-whom-through

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #pain #karma #maturation #humanity #wisdom

« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736554691400499200/swift-footed-is-the-approach-of-fate-and-none-can

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #fate #karma #poetry

« Swift-footed is the approach of fate,
And none can justice violate,
But feels its stern hand soon or late. »

— Aeschylus

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736554691400499200/swift-footed-is-the-approach-of-fate-and-none-can

#quotes #Aeschylus #justice #fate #karma #poetry

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘆𝗹𝘂𝘀 -

Sure, we know the basics of the story, but the reading reveals far more about the nature of power and the principles of loyalty , the methods of governance and the providence of resistance.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #aeschylus #prometheus #prometheusbound #drama #classicaldrama

https://buff.ly/3KHqBia

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘆𝗹𝘂𝘀 -

Sure, we know the basics of the story, but the reading reveals far more about the nature of power and the principles of loyalty , the methods of governance and the providence of resistance.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #aeschylus #prometheus #prometheusbound #drama #classicaldrama

https://buff.ly/3KHqBia

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘆𝗹𝘂𝘀 -

Sure, we know the basics of the story, but the reading reveals far more about the nature of power and the principles of loyalty , the methods of governance and the providence of resistance.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #aeschylus #prometheus #prometheusbound #drama #classicaldrama

https://buff.ly/3KHqBia

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘆𝗹𝘂𝘀 -

Strangely still too relevant a classic drama of one who stands alone against politics based in fear, who gives mankind nothing less than culture and the concepts of self-will and hope.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #aeschylus #greektragedy #prometheus #martyr #drama #classicalage #classics #mythology

https://buff.ly/3ywN5PX

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

"The Aithiopian land, where seven-channelled Neilos (the Nile) rolles its refreshing tide, fed by abundant, wind-born rain, and therein the fire-eyed sun [#Helios] beaming forth upon the earth, melts the snow amid the rocks."
#Aeschylus, Fragment 161

🏛️ Apollon-Sol, Roman floor mosaic, El-Jem, #Tunisia

#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology

Has anyone seen Na Peirsigh in the Abbey? I always like seeing productions of ancient Greek plays, although they can often go horribly wrong (usually by trying to make them relevant to contemporary concerns in a heavy-handed manner). As the official oldest surviving play in the world I think I have to see this, plus it provides an opportunity to see whether I have made any actual progress with my Irish.

#NaPeirsigh #theatre #Aeschylus #AbbeyTheatre

https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/na-peirsigh-persians/

Has anyone seen Na Peirsigh in the Abbey? I always like seeing productions of ancient Greek plays, although they can often go horribly wrong (usually by trying to make them relevant to contemporary concerns in a heavy-handed manner). As the official oldest surviving play in the world I think I have to see this, plus it provides an opportunity to see whether I have made any actual progress with my Irish.

#NaPeirsigh #theatre #Aeschylus #AbbeyTheatre

https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/na-peirsigh-persians/