Comments on: Mythology Mondays: Agamemnon and the Oresteia

By: Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Telemachus sets sail

Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Telemachus sets sail — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:37:47 +0000

[...] Here, Nestor digresses to tell Telemachus the news that Agamemnon has been murdered, and Clytemnestra and Aegisthus in turn by Orestes. [...]

By: Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: 1200 BCE, a Greek Odyssey

Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: 1200 BCE, a Greek Odyssey — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:14:30 +0000

[...] The children they left behind were now grown. The beds of their wives had grown cold (or at least most of them.) Their kingdoms remained unprotected. All while they made themselves rich in spoils and new heroic [...]

By: Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Absolution of guilt

Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Absolution of guilt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:22:25 +0000

[...] focus on the what happens when these lines are blurred. What happens when mother kills father, like Agamemnon and Clytemnestra? Or when son kills father and causes the death of mother, like Oedipus? Heracles was honour bound [...]

By: Hezabelle

Hezabelle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:50:00 +0000

The Sebba I could go with, but I don’t know about the Testaments. I don’t do testaments. haha.

Sephesus reminds me of Sisyphus. But I suppose it’s better than Sebastria. hahaha.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:44:00 +0000

Sebiad, not bad! I was thinking maybe The Best Testament… or The Greatest Testament…

Or a Nordic ‘Sebba’, perhaps.

I like the sound of ‘Sephesus’, if I ever get to have a city named after me.

By: Hezabelle

Hezabelle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:39:00 +0000

Seb, I volunteer myself to be your Official Mythologizer. With a degree in Communications AND Classics, I’m sure you’ll find I’m more than qualified.

I work in prose, poetry and best of all, TRAGEDY. And I work for chocolate. ;)

I just need a title for my great work. The Sebiad? hahaha.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:34:00 +0000

There were no gods goosing around back then either, Hezabelle!

People were perhaps just slightly less conservative then... :)

Maybe if I goof around enough, myths will begin to surround my life, and eventual death.

By: Hezabelle

Hezabelle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:04:00 +0000

Yeah, honestly… Who WOULDN’T do a swan/Zeus? The problem with our time is that there’s a distinct lack of omnipotent gods shape shifting and fighting/fucking amongst each other. Or so I think. Marie Phillips would disagree.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Wow, those myths are quite tame compared to the Norse ones!

But the swan was quite creative, certainly :)

I hope that, in three thousand years, when civilisation looks back at our generation, we've created some good myths for them to enjoy.

I just hope they center around more powerful characters than Paris... Hilton. We need a modern-day Helen!

By: Hezabelle

Hezabelle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:06:00 +0000

Ambles - I only remember these things because I've been studying them for four years. Hahaha. And even then I sometimes have to look it up.

You should try starting with something more basic, there are a lot of really good mythology books that have the basics of the main myths from Greece (and Rome, but the Romans pretty much just stole the Greek).

Another good thing is if you want to read Ovid's Metamorphoses - if you get the Oxford edition it's not hard to read, though it is in verse. But basically he retells most of the main myths in the first ten books (the next few books are slightly boring).

AND the plays are awesome, and a quick read, but it's sort of like Shakespeare, it helps if you have a background knowledge first.