Status Updates From The Greek Plays: Sixteen Pl...

I love Oedipus at Colonus as a conclusion to Oedipus's story. Firstly, his righteous anger that he has been held responsible for divinely prophesised acts he had no control over. Then for the weirdness - that Oedipus's broken, curséd body has become sacred; that his resting place must be unknown, his death mystical. Also, just being set in a grove with a rock. I like simple things sometimes.

I appreciate that we have three versions of the Electra/Libation Bearers myth, and that one of them should seem to simply allow Electra and Orestes to revel in what they do, the vengeance they take. It allows the myth to be complicated - can we really be sympathetic to Clytemnestra's suffering with regard to Iphigenia's murder, when she appears to treat her living children so poorly?

Antigone is excellent; while reading it I was also preparing some Black History Month stuff, which touches on the question of just and unjust laws; but I also read things that asked questions about our moral purity tests leading me to think about how Antigone kills herself after Creon changes his mind, and if expecting people to change their mind is valuable or not... always more to unpack with this one.

Oedipus Tyrannos: still the best play.

there’s gonna be some jumping around in this one(some are assigned for class)