Status Updates From The Bacchae and Other Plays

rhesus: athena playing gamemaker in a duck-duck-goose chase where the trojans are sitting ducks and the greeks are geese playing chess.

play #4: Iphigenia at Aulis - imagine leading an army set to rescue your SIL and the winds just aren't having it so this random monk tells you to sacrifice your daughter and you follow through with it. I personally could not, but ancient greek kings were on another level of literal “fuck around and find out” vibes.

divine frenzy is a reasonable excuse in mistaking your son for a lion. RIP Pentheus, you would've hated the Catholic Church.

The more I read Euripides, the more I enjoy it.