#orestes – @hermesmoly on Tumblr

Stop. Stop characterizing Chrysothemis as “Team Clytemnestra” she’s team family. She’s team “Electra, Orestes is alive!” She’s team “I don’t hate you that much” she’s team I don’t want anymore death and murder and I miss how things used to be. I love you both but I can’t kill our mother. Hatred can’t keep me alive.

#chrysothemis #i am holding her as a mischaracterized skrunkly #the oresteia #xan’s oresteia posting #orestes #electra #iphigenia #clytemnestra #agamemnon

hermesmoly

The urgent need to rewrite the Oresteia and make Helen and Menelaus competent parental figures

#like what if helen never died and menelaus wasnt. like that #euripides we have beef for your orestes piece #(and your menelaus characterization but thats for another day)#like idc in my head they adopted erigone helen and aletes never died #‘but they never got to raise hermione! its realistic!’ well idc the characterization isnt RIGHT #the oresteia #an oresteia #menelaus #helen of sparta #electra #orestes #chrysothemis #clytemnestra #agamemnon #xan’s oresteia posting

hermesmoly

hey sophocles, anne carson, this is kinda devastating?

#the image of electra holding on to her father’s ashes… to think that she KNEW if her dad was around he’d protect her #nobody talk to me #the oresteia #an oresteia #electra #agamemnon #orestes #xan’s oresteia posting

hermesmoly

Orestes: oh look who it is: mister wifeguy (derogatory)

#being an oresteia lover and a menelaus and helen fan is not for the faint of heart #greek mythology #the oresteia #an oresteia #orestes #menelaus #helen of sparta

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Electra looking exactly like the female version of Agamemnon is just perfect to me. Orestes looks at her and sees their father, obeying her. Menelaus looks at her and sees his dead brother, guilt-ridden and mourning her. Clytemnestra looks at her and sees the worst, treating her the way she never would if she was Iphigenia.

Chysothemis, the only sister she grew up with, is probably the only one who sees Electra as Electra.

pelideswhore

additionally, orestes looks like clytemnestra (canon) so he’s there to kill a reflection of himself, his mother, the worst part of himself

#a welcome addition ty eden #iphigenia and chrysothemis are like blends of their mother and father #but these two… mirrors of their parents #orestes #electra

hermesmoly

Chrysothemis, the only sister she grew up with, is probably the only one who sees Electra as Electra.

#;)#xan’s oresteia posting #electra #agamemnon #orestes #iphigenia #the oresteia #chrysothemis

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rubynrut

Orestes my beloved unstable individual

He looks like he's about to have a crisis, cry, commit murder, cry, vomit, cry again and faint all at the same time.

#orestes #electra #the oresteia

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coco6420

girlfromenglishclass

If I spend too much time thinking about this I'll die.

#the oresteia #have i reblogged this? idk but ill do it again #Clytemnestra #orestes

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dootznbootz

simugeuge

Perseus: I'll kill anyone to defend my mom

Telemachus: I'll kill anyone my mom tells me to

Orestes: I'll kill my mom

#HAHA PLS #orestes #telemachus #perseus

hermesmoly

Oh don't mind me thinking about how Agamemnon's parent-like love for Menelaus was probably one of his attributes that endeared Clytemnestra to him...

#*rips my hair out* they really thought they were going to be good parents to their kids. oh they had such hope #agamemnon #clytemnestra #agamemnon x clytemnestra #menelaus #house of atreus #iphigenia #orestes #chrysothemis #electra #ok in a lighthearted note cly saw aga being a whole ass parent to menelaus and said yes. that single father. i want to tap that

hermesmoly

#theres a right answer btw.#ok but fr i want to know the people’s princess #and the most behated #if you dont know who to vote vote chrysothemis 🔫#greek mythology #the oresteia #orestes #electra #iphigenia #chrysothemis

hermesmoly

Enough with the absent father/mother trope, its time for girlfailure aunt and boyloser uncle (helen and menelaus)

#they are trying!#helen of sparta #menelaus #telemachus #electra #orestes #chrysothemis #greek mythology #the oresteia #the odyssey

hermesmoly

Anonymous asked:

you like AGAMEMNON more than Paris?

Well yeah ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm drawn to his big brother nature, his relationship with Clytemnestra and his cursed family, with his brother, his asshole-ish decisions that shaped the Trojan War, his death, and the Oresteia with him and Iphigenia haunting the narrative... I like him! Not more than Menelaus but I find him really interesting!

Also if you have read the Odyssey, there's a scene where as a ghost Agamemnon asks Odysseus if he knew where Orestes was, if he was safe with Menelaus, because Clytemnestra never let him hold Orestes (presumably after Iphigenia's death) and had banished Orestes when Agamemnon returned home from the war. He's heartbroken when Odysseus cannot give him an answer and they both sob in grief not knowing the state of their sons. And that scene really just humanized Agamemnon to me.

#now do i think he is more morally righteous than Paris? of course not!#this isnt about who killed the less people its about who is your favorite war criminal and I just like him more #agamemnon #asks #the iliad #orestes #the odyssey

hermesmoly

Headcanon that the AgaCly kids climb Menelaus like a pine tree

#he’d visit and the girls will be like UNCLE IS HEREEEE OUR PLAYGROUND #he’d have electra on his shoulders and iphigenia and chrysothemis at each leg #helen and clytemnestra would just laugh their asses off #and agamemnon having the biggest laugh #when told to him #meanwhile orestes (still a baby) would coo at the sight (he never got to climb him)#;)#the iliad #menelaus #agamemnon #clytemnestra #helen of sparta #chrysothemis #electra #orestes #iphigenia

hermesmoly

Children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra as Melodrama songs:

Iphigenia - Writer in the Dark ("Did my best to exist just for you / Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart / I am my mother's child / I'll love you 'til my breathing stops / I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me”)

Electra - Liability ("All that a stranger would see / Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek / They say, "You're a little much for me / You're a liability / The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy / 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore, and then they are bored of me")

Orestes - Sober II ("You asked if I was feeling it, I'm psycho high / Know you won't remember in the morning when I speak my mind / And the terror and the horror / God, I wonder why we bother / All the glamour and the trauma / and the fucking melodrama")

Chrysothemis - Hard Feelings/Loveless (“Please, could you be tender? And I will sit close to you / I care for myself the way I used to care about you / 'Til I don't need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave / Bet you wanna rip my heart out / Well, guess what? I'd like that.")

Pylades - The Lourve ("I am your sweetheart psychopathic crush / Drink up your movements, still I can't get enough / Blow all my friendships / To sit in hell with you / Okay I know that you are not my type (still I fall) / I'm just the sucker who let you fill her mind")

#hermione would probably be liability too or its reprise #anyways. super niche of this but i hope fellow lorde-oresteia lovers agree #orestes #pylades #electra #iphigenia #oresteia #agamemenon #clytemnestra #green light is lowkey helen/menelaus but OK this is not about them. sorry

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jewishdainix

@tiredguyswag

#this quote is just so hilarious 😭#orestes #oresteia

hermesmoly

Agamemnon serving zero cunt because he gave it all to his depressed kids

#especially electra. the cuntiness passed on to her #agamemnon #electra #orestes #chrysothemis #iphigenia #clytemnestra #ofc clytemnestra has the original cunty gene but i imagine none of her kids have her vibe