A Night With Hesiod, Euripides, and Sophocles

My increasingly incoherent and snarky thoughts:

- Yes, Oedipus. She is your mom, he was your dad, you're a hot-tempered idiot, but really, blinding yourself with your wife/mother's broach pins? Overkill much?

- From 'Hymn to Demeter': "Yet, goddess, cease your loud lament...Aidoneus [Hades], the Ruler of

Many, is no unfitting husband among the deathless gods for your child, being your own brother..."

Me: That seems like a pretty good reason to lament right there.

- Oooooh, another prophecy! Let me guess - it applies directly to the main character! 

- And then Zeus fathered Persephone by...I did not need to know that, Hesiod, thankyouverymuch.

- Mental bleach, anyone?

- Apollo is a jerk.

- "and tell Metaneira, our deep-bosomed mother, all this matter fully..." Um...anyone else finding the particular adjective used disturbing?

- yeahhhh, the gorgeous godlike woman out in the fields just happens to know exactly who you are. Anchises, you have a brain, please use it.

- "take me now, stainless and unproved in love..." Yeah, Aphrodite. That's a hysterical line from you.

- I don't even want to know what my subconscious is going to do with all this mythology once I finally sleep.

- Goodnight world!