📖 #Antígona, gran obra de #Sófocles. Está entre las mejores tragedias griegas que he leído, junto a #PrometoEncadenado, #Medea y #EdipoRey. 8/10.
#Literatura.

Le "riviste di settore" alimentano l'attesa! CC @ritapetruccioli #fumetti #preview #Medea

Sono talmente emozionata che quasi mi mancano le parole... Il 13 marzo esce MEDEA per Bao Publishing!
È una graphic novel di 272 pagine che rilegge il mito di Medea in chiave fantascientifica. Un libro che scorre veloce, pieno di pathos e che parla soprattutto di potere e collettività. Frutto di 4 anni di lavoro, unisce lo stile dei miei libri precedenti alla "cazzimma" dei miei poster militanti. Non vedo l'ora! #baopublishing #ritapetruccioli #medea #fumetti #graphicnovel #scifi #comics #art

Jason (& the Argonauts)

Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero & leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is in Greek literature.He’s the son of Aeson, who was the rightful King of Iolcos (modern-day Vollos). He was married to the “sorceress” Medea, the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.

Jason appears in various literary works in the classical world of Greece & Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica & the tragedy Medea.

Pelias (Jason’s half-uncle & his dad’s half-brother) was power hungry & sought to gain authority over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the offspring of a union between their shared mom, Tyro (the daughter of Salmoneus), & the sea god, Poseidon.

In a bitter feud, Jason overthrew Aeson (again, who was the rightful King), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reasons.

Aeson’s wife, Alcimede I, had a newborn son named Jason. She saved from Pelias by having female attendants cluster around the infant & cry as if he were stillborn. Being scared that Pelias would eventually notice & unalive her son, Alcimede sent him away to be raised by the centaur, Chiron. Chiron also tutored Achilles & Asclepius.

She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. Pelias, fearing that his ill-gotten kingship might be challenged, consulted an Oracle who warned him to beware of a man wearing only 1 sandal.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of Poseidon when the grown Jason arrived in Iolcus, having lost 1 of his sandals. He lost this sandal in the river Anauros/Anaurus while helping an old woman across the water.

The old woman was actually Hera, the goddess, in disguise. She (Hera) blessed him because she knew what Pelias had planned. When Jason entered Iolcus, Pelias recalled what the Oracle had warned him about. Jason aware that he was the rightful King, informed Pelias.

Pelias agreed to step down from the throne, on the condition that Jason brings back the Golden Fleece. Jason agrees to these terms.

Jason then assembles the group that becomes known as the Argonauts. They were named after their ship, the Argo. Jason commissions the shipbuilder Argus to build the Argo. (We feel like Argus named the ship after himself.)

The Argo was a vessel that was outfitted with a piece of talking oak from the sacred grove of Dodona. Argus becomes an Argonaut. Jason then recruits the rest of the Argonauts.

The Argonauts list:

Acastus

Admetus

Atalanta, the formidable huntress

Augeas

The winged Boreads, Zetes & Calais (sons of the North Wind)

The Dioscuri, Castor & Pollux/Polydeuces

Euphemus

Heracles/Hercules (Yes, THAT one. He eventually left the quest.)

Idas

Idmon, the seer

Lynceus

Meleager

Orpheus

Peleus (Achilles’ dad)

Philoctetes

Telamon

Tiphys, the helmsman

After a few detours, Jason & his comrades came to Colchis (modern-day Black Sea coast of Georgia, the country) to get that sweet, sweet Golden Fleece. Colchis had a king (King Aeetes). The Fleece was given to him by Phrixus. The king promised to give Jason the Fleece, for a price: 3 tasks.

When presented with these tasks, Jason got discouraged & depressed. The goddess Hera was on Jason’s side. Hera convinced Aphrodite to convince her son, Eros, to make King Aeetus’ daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason. As a result of this love-god meddling, Medea ended up being the key to Jason’s success.

First, Jason had to plow a field with a fire-breathing oxen (the Khalkotauroi) that he had to yoke himself, Medea gave Jason an ointment that made his skin fireproof from the oxen’s flames. Then Jason planted the teeth of a dragon into a field. The teeth sprouted into an army of warriors called spartoi. Medea told Jason how to defeat the spartoi.

Before the spartoi attacked Jason, he threw a rock into the crowd. The spartoi weren’t able to figure out where the rock came from. So the spartoi turned on each other & defeated one another. Jason’s last task was to overcome the sleepless dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. Medea to the rescue, again.

She gave Jason a potion that he sprayed the dragon with. The dragon fell asleep. Jason was able to get the Golden Fleece. Then he sails away with Medea. Medea distracted her dad (who chased the pair as they fled) by unaliving her brother, Apsyrtus, & throwing pieces of his body into the sea.

King Aeetus stopped to gather each piece of Apsyrtus’ body. This gave Jason, & Medea, time to escape. On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus (the Argo’s helmsman) that he would one day rule Cyrene. This prophecy came true through Euphemus’ descendant, Battus.

Zeus, as punishment for the slaughter of Medea’s brother, sent a series of storms at the Argo & blew it off course. The Argo then actually spoke & said that they should seek purification with Circe, a nymph living on the island of Aeaea. After being cleansed, they continued their journey home.

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass by the Sirens. The same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey. The Sirens lived on 3 small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli & sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them, which result in the wrecking of their ships on the islands.

When Orpheus heard their voices, he said, “Here, hold my drink a sec!” He pulls out his lyre & played music that was more beautiful & louder, drowning out the Sirens’ songs so the sailors couldn’t hear them!

The Argo then came to the island of Crete, guarded by Talos, who was a man made of bronze. As the ship came close, Talos hurled huge stones at the ship, keeping it at bay. Talos had 1 ichor vessel (like a blood vessel) that went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by 1 bronze nail. (Ichor is pretty much the blood of the gods.)

Medea, helping Jason, cast a spell on Talos to calm him. She then removes the bronze nail. Talos ends up bleeding to death. The Argo was able to sail on.

Jason, celebrating his return with the Golden Fleece, saw his dad was too sick & old to participate in the celebrations. Jason asks Medea to take some years from his own life & add the years to his dad’s life. (This is actually sweet.)

Medea complied. There was no cost to Jason’s life. Medea withdrew the blood from Aeson’s body & infused it with certain herbs. She put it back into his veins. This invigorated him. Pelias’ daughters took notice of this, & wanted a piece of that action from their own dad.

Using her sorcery, Medea told Pelias’ daughters that she could make their dad smooth & vigorous as a kid by chopping him up into pieces & boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water & magical herbs. Medea shows that she can do this with the oldest ram in a flock, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls naively sliced up their dad & put in the cauldron.

Medea just didn’t put in the magical herbs to revive Pelias. So Pelias was dead. Pelias’s son, Acastus, drove Jason, & Medea, into exile for the unaliving. The couple settles in Corinth.

In Corinth, Jason gets engaged to marry Creusa/Glauce, a daughter of the king of Corinth. He did this for political advancement. Medea confronts Jason about this engagement. Because SHE’S already his wife. She reminds Jason of all the help she’s given him & the vow he made, to Hera, to love Medea & only Medea forever.

Jason tells Medea that it’s not her that he should thank but it’s Aphrodite who should get the kudos. Because Aphrodite made Medea fall in love with Jason. (Ok, Jason’s kinda right. It was Aphrodite via Eros.) Medea was incensed! (Rightfully so.)

Jason had vowed to be only Medea’s forever so Medea took her revenge by giving Creusa/Glauce a cursed dress, as a wedding gift. This dress stuck to her body & burned her to death as soon as she put it on. Cerusa/Glauce’s dad, Creon, burned to death with his daughter as he tried to save her.

Then Medea killed her sons that she had with Jason to ensure he had no legacy. When Jason learned of this, Medea was already gone. She fled to Athens in a chariot pulled by dragons that was sent by her grandpa, Helios (the sun-god).

As a result of breaking his vow to love Medea only forever, Jason lost his favor with Hera & died lonely & unhappy. He spent his final years as a broken man, wandering the docks where the rotting hull of the Argo sat. One day, while he was resting under the ship’s prow, a piece of the decaying wood broke off & fell onto Jason’s head, unaliving him instantly.

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Medea

Her name literally means ‘planner, schemer.’ (This becomes relevant later, trust us!)

In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (modern-day Georgia, the country). She was also the granddaughter of the sun god, Helios. She was a niece of Circe, an enchantress goddess. Her mom may have been Idyia. This divine lineage gave her “golden eyes” & a terrifying intellectual capacity. She was wicked smart.

In most stories, Medea is known as a sorceress, an accomplished pharmakis, a worker in pharmakeia (medicinal magic), & is often depicted as a high-priestess of the goddess Hecate.

To the Athenians, Colchis was the edge of the known world. Medea represented the “Eastern” woman: dangerous, knowledgeable in “pharmaka” (drugs/magic), & unbound by Greek social norms. Medea was a priestess of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, & the underworld.

She first appears in Hesiod’s Theogony around 700 BC. But is best known from Euripides’ 431 BCE Medea & Apollonius of Rhodes’ 3rd century BC epic Argonautica.

In the myth of the Argonauts, she helps Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece. She was struck by Eros (often pictured as the interference of Hera & Aphrodite), Medea betrays her dad, & kills her brother, to help Jason. To ensure Jason’s (& the Argonauts) escape, she unalives her own brother, Apsyrtus, scattering his remains in the sea so her dad would have to slow down to collect the remains for burial.

This act marked her transition from a domestic princess to a woman who’s “burned her bridges” to the world of men. ONce Jason finishes his quest, she abandons her homeland of Colchis & flees westward with Jason. Medea then marries Jason. She & Jason have at least 2 sons together.

They live in Corinth. Jason abandons Medea to marry the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, named Creusa/Glauce. He did this for political gain, after 10 years of marriage to Medea. Medea is then exiled from Corinth by King Creon.

She was offered asylum in Athens by King Aegeus. This asylum is given after Medea offers the king to give him an heir by using her magic. In some stories, it’s Medea who’s King Aegeus’ baby mama. But Medea wasn’t happy at being rejected by Jason after he made a vow to Hera to love Medea, & be only hers, forever.

This is where Medea’s divine lineage comes into play. Her “Sophia” (wisdom/cleverness) turns deadly. Medea decides the only way to truly destroy/hurt Jason is to unalive their 2 sons & his new bride (who is unalived by a poisoned crown/robes/dress).

Medea weighs her “thymos” (passion/rage) against her “bouleumata” (plans), & the rage wins. She did this so Jason would be without heirs or a legacy for the rest of his life. She didn’t even let Jason hold the bodies of their 2 dead sons, so that he could properly grieve.

Medea wasn’t punished for her actions. Her grandpa, the sun god Helios, sent a chariot pulled by dragons to rescue her. She escaped Athens, carrying the bodies of her children, leaving Jason a broken man.

Or according to Herodotus (in his Histories) mentions that she ended up leaving Athens & settling among the Aryans, who ended up changing their name to the Medes.

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A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly
   incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident
   to cloak injustice in fair speech,
   he dares the utmost villainy.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν
   πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει:
   γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν
   τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81800/

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A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable
   is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
 
[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: Δεινή τις ὀργὴ καὶ δυσίατος πέλει,
   ὅταν φίλοι φίλοισι συμβάλωσ᾽ ἔριν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 520ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81661/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #anger #betrayal #conflict #family #friends #fury #grudge #kin #lovedones #quarrel #strife #wrath

Jetzt ist "Medea" - das "dark diy international queer music collective" nach nur wenigen Ambient-, Electronic-, und Goth-Konzerten bei "lass uns eine Soli-Party für die Sumud-Flotilla in der W1 veranstalten" angekommen.

Weil nichts so queersolidarisch ist, wie der Einsatz für eine von Autoritären, Islamisten und TikTokRevoluzzern durchsetzte Dogmatenszene. 🥶

#Antisemitismus #Leipzig #Sukutur #Medea #ArschAufEimer

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
   to recognize false gold, when there’s no mark,
   no token stamped on the human body,
   to indicate which men are worthless.
   
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ὦ Ζεῦ, τί δὴ χρυσοῦ μὲν ὃς κίβδηλος ᾖ
   τεκμήρι᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν ὤπασας σαφῆ,
   ἀνδρῶν δ᾽ ὅτῳ χρὴ τὸν κακὸν διειδέναι
   οὐδεὶς χαρακτὴρ ἐμπέφυκε σώματι;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 516ff (431 BC) [tr. Johnston (2008)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81527/

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#Salome #KingLear #Hamlet #Ophelia #Medea #GreekMythology
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A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: And furthermore we are women, unable to perform noble deeds, but most skillful architects of every sort of harm.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:                    Πρὸς δὲ καὶ πεφύκαμεν
   γυναῖκες, ἐς μὲν ἔσθλ᾽ ἀμηχανώταται,
   κακῶν δὲ πάντων τέκτονες σοφώταται.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 407ff (431 BC) [tr. Kovacs (Loeb) (1994)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81335/

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Su Preview n°123 un'anteprima del mio fumetto in uscita a marzo per Bao Publishing! Emozione!!!

Soprattutto mentre posto questo sto finendo le ultime tavole e sono in modalità shinkansen🚆 , razzo spaziale🚀 o qualunque altra cosa vada velocissima!

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A quotation from Euripides

CREON:                              Now stay here, if you must,
This one day. You can hardly in one day accomplish
What I am afraid of.
 
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: νῦν δ᾽, εἰ μένειν δεῖ, μίμν᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν μίαν:
οὐ γάρ τι δράσεις δεινὸν ὧν φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει. ]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 355ff (431 BC)[tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81204/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #brevity #concerns #delay #reprieve

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: Oh, what an evil power love has in people’s lives!
CREON: That would depend on circumstances, I imagine.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Φεῦ φεῦ, βροτοῖς ἔρωτες ὡς κακὸν μέγα.
ΚΡΈΩΝ: ὅπως ἄν, οἶμαι, καὶ παραστῶσιν τύχαι.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 330ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81069/

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A quotation from Euripides

CREON: A woman of hot temper — and a man the same —
Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.
 
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ,
ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 319ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80979/

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Musiqolog over #Reinbertbio: ‘Informatief voor zowel leek als vakman’

Het Festival Oude Muziek is weer achter de rug. Het was een geslaagde editie met aanzienlijk meer bezoekers dan vorig jaar, toen het epicentrum nog in de Pandhof lag. Ik maakte dagelijks voor het Festivaljournaal van de AVROTROS een reportage, onder andere van de masterclass van de afdeling oude muziek van Juilliard, de workshop Gregoriaans van Hendrik Vanden Abeele, de laboratoriumproductie Medea en de Oudemuziekmarkt. Alle reportages zijn hier terug te luisteren.

Voor Cultuurpers schreef ik tevens besprekingen van de uiteindelijke voorstelling van het melodrama Medea van Georg Benda op 2 september in Theater Kikker, en van het controversiële project Trabe Dich, Thierlein van het Vlaamse koor Graindelavoix in TivoliVredenburg.

Op donderdag 4 september maakte ik even een uitstapje naar de nieuwe muziek, tijdens een lezing over mijn biografie Reinbert de Leeuw, mens of melodie bij Nawijn & Polak in Apeldoorn. Dolf Weverink van Leporello Uitgevers begeleidde mij. Het publiek was bijzonder aandachtig en betrokken en hielp uitbater Ivan Borghstijn na afloop van zijn gehele voorraad af Reinbertbio’s af; hij moest zelfs bijbestellen.

Borghstijn was ook zelf enthousiast en nodigde me meteen uit voor zijn radioprogramma Da Vinci bij Hofstreek FM. Donderdag 11 september a.s. zal hij me rond 20.05 uur interviewen. De uitzending is via internet in heel Nederland te beluisteren.

Gisteren, op 8 september, vierde Reinbert de Leeuw zijn 76e verjaardag. In reactie op mijn tweet hierover stuurde musicoloog Wouter Steenbeek subiet een mooie bespreking van mijn biografie Reinbert de Leeuw, mens of melodie. – Het voelde een beetje alsof ik zelf jarig was.

Steenbeek looft mijn brede aanpak, die niet alleen het algemene publiek meeneemt op een ontdekkingsreis langs de nieuwe muziek, maar ook voor de vakman veel wetenswaardigs te bieden heeft. Dankzij mijn boek heeft hij bijvoorbeeld de Canadese componist Claude Vivier leren kennen. Steenbeek schrijft onder andere:

De vakman kan intussen al lezend zijn kennis opfrissen: wie schreven er ook alweer mee aan Reconstructie? Hoe zat het met Donemus? Welke musicus hoorde bij welke factie? Bovendien is er altijd wel iets dat een deskundige nog niet weet. Zo had ik nog nooit gehoord van Claude Vivier, een door Reinbert de Leeuw zeer bewonderde Canadees. Daar heb ik al die jaren toch heel wat aan gemist, bleek wel na een korte luisterbeurt.

[…]

Het laaiende enthousiasme van Thea Derks over de moderne muziek heeft vooral een gunstig effect. Wie die moderne componisten altijd maar hermetisch en onbegrijpelijk vond, wordt spelenderwijs duidelijk gemaakt wat hun muziek kan betekenen voor hen die ermee omgaan en hen die ervan houden.

Morgen begint de vierde editie in Utrecht van de Gaudeamus Muziekweek, met een concert van het Asko|Schönberg in de Grote Zaal van TivoliVredenburg. Ook Gaudeamus maakt dankbaar gebruik van het nieuwe ‘muziekpaleis’, dat tot festivalhart is uitgeroepen. De juryleden Vanessa Lann, Oscar Bianchi en Wim Henderickx beoordelen nieuwe composities van componisten onder de dertig, die meedingen naar de Gaudeamus muziekprijs en de aanmoedigingsprijs.

Op donderdag 11 september ben ik te gast bij een door Gaudeamus en het BIMhuis georganiseerd seminar over muziekkritiek in cultureel centrum Rasa in Utrecht. Onder leiding van Emile Wennekes zal ik samen met Mischa Andriessen (Trouw, Cultuurpers) en Marianne de Feijter (Muziekvan.nu) discussiëren over de afnemende aandacht die de reguliere media schenken aan muziek en over de manieren waarop websites als Cultuurpers en Muziekvan.nu pogen deze lacune op te vullen.

#BIMhuis #Cultuurpers #FestivalOudeMuziek #Gaudeamus #GeorgBenda #Graindelavoix #HendrikVandenAbeele #HofstreekFm #JuilliardSchoolOfMusic #LeporelloUitgevers #MarianneDeFeijter #Medea #MischaAndriessen #MuziekvanNu #NawijnPolak #Rasa #ReinbertDeLeeuw #seminarMuziekkritiek #TheaDerks #TivoliVredenburg

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: Men say we live a safe life in the home,
   While they do battle with the spear.
   But they are wrong; I’d rather stand three times
   with shield in hand than give birth once.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: λέγουσι δ᾽ ἡμᾶς ὡς ἀκίνδυνον βίον
   ζῶμεν κατ᾽ οἴκους, οἱ δὲ μάρνανται δορί,
   κακῶς φρονοῦντες: ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα
   στῆναι θέλοιμ᾽ ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 248ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80803/

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The Wilton Playshop presents Euripides' Medea [1963].
1 print : color ; sheet 49 x 31 cm (poster format)

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A quotation from Euripides

NURSE:                             But not long
   Can the extremes of grandeur ever last;
   And heavier are the curses which it brings
   When Fortune visits us in all her wrath.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ:           Τὰ δ᾽ ὑπερβάλλοντ᾽
   οὐδένα καιρὸν δύναται θνητοῖς,
   μείζους δ᾽ ἄτας, ὅταν ὀργισθῇ
   δαίμων οἴκοις, ἀπέδωκεν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 127ff (431 BC) [tr. Wodhull (1782)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80709/

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