Monday, February 24, 2020
Origin of Love
Here's an animated version of (loosely) Aristophanes' tale from Plato's Symposium from the 2001 film version of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch":
Monday, February 17, 2020
Last Lines of Hecuba
Agamemnon
Stop his mouth!
Polymestor
Close it now; for I have spoken.
Agamemnon
Make haste [1285] and cast him upon some desert island, since his mouth is full of such exceeding presumption. Go, unhappy Hecuba, and bury your two corpses; and you, Trojan women, must draw near your masters' tents, for lo! I perceive a breeze [1290] just rising to waft us home. May we reach our country well and find all well at home, released from troubles here! Polymestor is dragged away by Agamemnon's guards.
Chorus
Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends, to prove the toils of slavery! for such is fate's relentless hest.
Stop his mouth!
Polymestor
Close it now; for I have spoken.
Agamemnon
Make haste [1285] and cast him upon some desert island, since his mouth is full of such exceeding presumption. Go, unhappy Hecuba, and bury your two corpses; and you, Trojan women, must draw near your masters' tents, for lo! I perceive a breeze [1290] just rising to waft us home. May we reach our country well and find all well at home, released from troubles here! Polymestor is dragged away by Agamemnon's guards.
Chorus
Away to the harbour and the tents, my friends, to prove the toils of slavery! for such is fate's relentless hest.
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