Theban Plays | 
This week I pulled out the original recording of The Gospel at Colonus, one of my favorite pieces of theatre- a setting of "Oedipus at Colonus" as a modern parable within the frame of a Black Pentecostal church service. The music is incredible, and a gospel choir serves as our Greek chorus. It inspired me to re-visit the original, as well as Antigone- both still absolute bangers. And yes, that is a CD because the dream of the 90s is ALIVE, y'all!
Mini #BookHaul 📚
Sophocles' Theban Plays is in a matching Penguin edition to the Satyr Plays I bought earlier in the year. It's long annoyed me that Penguin nearly always print the original published date, not the publication date of the volume in hand. This one says 1947, but I think it may be a little later than that.
I wasn't aware that Graves had written a time travel fantasy. It has mixed reviews!
A text book for work to add to the other ⬇️
Nice days are now few and far between where I live and I‘m spending this one outside reading Sophocles which I am loving. I‘m all things Ancient Greece these days. 🏛
pickCompleted book #2 for the 24-hour readathon. Another good one, but definitely just as tragic as I remember from high school when I read it the last time. @DeweysReadathon #readathon #reread
so-soI love Greek Mythology. I think one of the main thing I didn‘t like about it was that I‘d rather watch a play than read it. And Oedipus at Colonus was a bit confusing at the beginning.
Review on blog:
https://monicalaurette.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-oedipus-cycle-by-sophocles.html
Catching up on #screamathonphotochallenge pics from the last few days as I enjoy this rainy morning! Taking it easy since my stomach has been out of sorts the past 2 days...most likely from eating too much gluten on Monday.
I have a wealth of #orangeandblack 📚 thanks to Penguin Classics and the 🐧 orange collection! 🧡🖤
#screamathon
pickMan, life was rough as shit back in ancient times. And then you gotta have a chorus around to poetically narrate everything. I really enjoyed all three plays, Oedipus the King the most, probably. I appreciate that these are shorter plays, although I think Antigone could have been longer and more......in-depth? But I‘m not going to act like I can do drama better than an ancient Greek, LOL. 4/5 ⭐️
Dang, they didn‘t mince words, them ancient Greeks.
You‘re in love with impossibility.
Been a long time since I‘ve read any ancient literature......like since JC about 20 years ago, heh. Had this on my shelves for a while (on the recommendation of @JeansThoughts ) and decided to finally give it a go.
pickI'm counting these three plays as one book for #BookFitnessChallenge (book 5/12). My undergrad major was classics, so I'm definitely biased toward Greco-Roman stuff, but I think everyone should read these tragedies. Their exploration of justice, family, pride, faith, government, guest-host relationships, fate v. free will, and blindness (literal and figurative) is just as relevant today as it was over 2000 years ago. #BFC @wanderinglynn
Tbh Oedipus at Colonus is super underrated.
#audiostitching with this reread, enjoying the Audible full-cast of these plays. As a classics major for undergrad, I always love spending some time with some Greco-Roman lit, even just in translation. 😊
Might listen to Antigone tonight too, or might save it until tomorrow. Already at 4/12 books total and 3/4 workouts for the week for the #BookFitnessChallenge #bfc #crossstitch @wanderinglynn
Antigone: But I shall bury him. And if I have to die for this pure crime,
I am content, for I shall rest beside him;
His love will answer mine. I have to please
The dead far longer than I need to please
The living; with them, I have to dwell forever.
Alas the Cycle of Oedipus is over. And now on to the next classical play: “Medea.” I absolutely loved the “Oedipus Cycle”! Which one of the three was your favorite? I‘d have to say my favorite was “Antigone.”
pickI finally clicked “submit” on my final paper today. 8 weeks whirlwind tour of the Ancient World. This stack, plus numerous articles and papers. I certainly know even more about what I don‘t know. The perils of education!
My favorite is Oedipus.
Really enjoyed reading in the garden all day today whilst the babies played outside. Minus one or two bumps it‘s been a great day. I‘m over halfway through The Oedipus Cycle and yes, it‘s just as amazing as I recalled it being. Can‘t wait to get to Antigone.
If you‘ve read Sophocles, which is your favourite play? #classicsstudent #ancientgreek #sophocles #bookstamums #classics #classicist #classicalstudies
I‘ve decided to reread some Sophocles. I haven‘t read Antigone (my favourite Greek play!) since the summer before last so I think I‘m well due a reread. 🙊
I go for new glasses next Tuesday and I‘m excited! I have my eye on adorable Kylie ones with tiny round frames in gold like cute little grandma glasses. The moon is in Aries and it‘s a time to be daring so I‘m trying something new! 🙊🖤✨ #greekplay #ancientgreek #classicist
This is what planning a drama unit looks like. All of this is making me miss my literary criticism class. I desperately want my kids to experience the magic of Oedipus Rex but I‘m not sure I can inflict it on them. I just have a strange feeling that they won‘t quite feel the same about it as I do. But we‘re definitely going to talk about it and maybe even read or watch a piece! Gotta purge that pity and fear!
When you feel the need to block out the news in order to stay sane, do as Thoreau advised, “read not the Times. Read the eternities.” And what better eternal reading in the Trump era than a Greek tragedy about resistance.
I'm enjoying #Sophocles #ThebenPlays so much! I'm not sure which one is my favorite yet because I'm only halfway through Oedipus At Colonus and I still have Antigone to go. 😁
Required Reading Part Five
CLAS 1P91: Ancient Greek Civilization
Including:
Theban Plays, by Sophocles
These Were the Greeks (textbook)
I think I read these to death. #bookstagram
It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands; We die for ever...
My love for Antigone is never ending. She is one of my favorite heroines! I think it's safe to say that Antigone would be tagging all her tweets with #Imwithher
When your supposed to be unpacking and you get distracted by a box of books!
pickEver since I saw Antigone performed my first year of undergrad, I've adored Greek tragedies. There's just something about knowing things are going to go badly that allows you to focus on HOW things go badly. What a joyous dive into depressing horror. | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
