#aeschylus — Public Fediverse posts

@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!

#Classics #ClassicalEducation #AncientGreece

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

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 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

« 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

« 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

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