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Reading the Oresteia for the first time and losing it when the king mentions Odysseus like yes! That’s our sad pathetic little man! You’re so right Agamemnon he does deserve our love!

“she’s like a swallow, possessed of her own barbaric song, strange, dark.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon, trans. by Robert Fagles, 1049-1050 (via antigonies)

Okay so I read the comic/au thing about Aeschylus and Good Leadman where Ash tries good human romance-rituals but me and @unagicake discussed how Ash kind of is animal-like in behaviour (the kind that kinda brings dead animals for their signifiant other as gifts) and I just... imagined this... From the webcomic Feast For A King! Please give it a read, it has some crazy stuff and amazing expressions! ( NSFW/Adult content; Language warning, Explicit Violence/Gore/Body Horror, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Drug use/Mention, Emotional Abuse)

“CHORUS: And the grace of the gods (I’m pretty sure) is a grace that comes by violence.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon (tr. Anne Carson)

Agamemnon by Aeschylus translated by Ted Hughes

Aiskhylos, An Oresteia (tr. by Anne Carson)