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Hey friend,

Just curious about some greek retellings you like? I tried to get through 'Clytemnestra' by constaza casti but even the first few chapters felt so anachronistic and out of character I returned the book.

i love till we have faces by c.s. lewis. not encouraging to me that no one** has come up with anything better in that vein (that is, "more or less straightforward retelling from an overlooked female character's perspective") since a white english man in the 50s.

**no one i've READ YET, i should say

but if you step away from the formula of narrative fiction, there's good stuff! denis o'hare and lisa peterson's "an iliad" and derek walcott's "the odyssey" are both interesting plays. of course, my beloved hadestown. alice oswald's poems "memorial" (drawn from the iliad) and "nobody" (drawing much more loosely on the odyssey) are [kisses fingers]. in louise glück's poetry collection meadowlands, she uses the odyssey throughout as a way of exploring marriage and parenthood; it's excellent. the lost books of the odyssey is a short story collection by zachary mason; like most short story collections, i found it very mixed, but it has a few stories i've returned to again and again.

odysseus made their marriage bed with his own hands. with his own hands

Quick painting before I go pass out

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

reminder that hektor talks to his horses about how wonderful andromache is

Values so clear it could bring a man to tears :’D

hector sketch (he's ready to go butcher people)

stand on the axe blade of light and dark

what Aeneas saw when he wake up, received the fire of Vesta.

ehh read Aeneid, love you Virgil💕

Zeus by Romain de Tirtoff (“Erté”) (1981)

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