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Iphigenia in memoriam ή 'στα φαγιούμ το βλέμμα είναι σώμα'
text: Iphigenie and In Memoriam by Jean-Rene Lemoine concept, devising and performance by Dimitra Kreps King Agamemnon boasts after kil...
text: Iphigenie and In Memoriam by Jean-Rene Lemoine concept, devising and performance by Dimitra Kreps King Agamemnon boasts after kil...
e.e. cummings “To be nobody but
ReplyDeleteyourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
thrilled to be Eurycleia too ..."she was bought by Laertes, Odysseus' father. He treated her as his wife, but she was never his consummated lover so as not to dishonor his real wife, Anticleia. She nursed Odysseus and Telemachus, Odysseus' son.
ReplyDeleteEurycleia's name means "broad fame," while Anticleia means "anti-fame." The tension between the meanings of Eurycleia's name and Anticleia's name reflects the tension between the two pillars of Odysseus' life. He was born to Anticleia, a noble woman, but was nursed (and essentially raised) by Eurycleia, a lower-class maid. Odysseus' fame comes from his role as a noble hero paralleled to his role as an anonymous beggar."