@commonmugwort
Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast. Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens. (@amaenad from Twitter but more chill) All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort
(for the fans of tragedy, the venue’s name translates to Theatre at Colonus, because that’s where it is; in the very run down Athens neighbourhood, once a village, where Sophocles was born, and where he put blind Oedipus at his end)
Forgot to take a picture of the stage because I was with a friend. Have the poster. It’s Linda, by Penelope Skinner, directed by Eleni Skoti. The poster shows the face and upper body of a woman in a necklace and a blue dress, in motion, hair flowing with the wind.
Today it was Linda, at the Επί Κολωνώ.
Two days left to save us.
I once made my son hate tomato sauce by serving it too often! He got over it, but it took years.
Twice, maybe. Unless it’s the sort of thing that can be made really different by swapping or omiting component (marinate in soy sauce and ginger v marinate in lemon juice and garlic, eg) where I might risk 3.
I researched it for a performance text a few years ago; made a play about how online ‘men’s rights’ activists slid from misogyny to violence to racist authoritarianism with nary a hitch.
Thankfully, my show saved us from the consequences.
Most useful to a translator too, and indispensable to a translator of performance texts. For these, in fact, the best thing is to get actors to read them for you. They don’t know the original, or what you meant by any given phrase, and their delivery reveals a lot.
I wish I hadn’t understood the part of that post I did understand.
(nobody translate, I implore you)
My most treasured artefact: those few pixels I managed to save from Andy’s body before his resolution hit zero. They sparkle like moon dust.
Photograph taken Monday evening at the former Olympic (I think) racetrack at the corner of the Zappeion Park in central Athens. A single runner moving leftward against the green grass and red track surface, the tall buildings behind her gilded with sunset, the cypress trees dark. In the foreground, on a ledge, a tabby and white cat on haunches in profile, tail wrapped around paws, looks pointedly in the opposite direction.
The feline attitude to athletic activity:
#Caturday #Cat
#Athens
A black and white photo of a red-shouldered hawk in mid take-off from a branch that runs horizontally across the bottom of the frame, its wings full extended.
Another shot from this morning's walk around the gardens, this gorgeous red-shouldered hawk taking off for #FlyDay
#ColorADay #BWFri #Photography #Birds #Hawks
Θα ήταν και καμμιά πενηνταπένταρια χρονών το ‘76. Ποσό μπροστά να έβλεπε;
(nb: my age now)
I just unfollowed someone for suggesting 40 is too old for social media. How’s your Friday going?
No, I am glad the children are on here, really. It keeps us vaguely aware of the latest important developments like what slang the cool new misogynist influencers use.
For people who blather so much about Western Civilization and how they’re supposedly saving it, it’s like they’ve never heard of the canonical Ancient Greek concept of “hubris.”
I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦
Consider our curiosity piqued.
Many thanks to Rob Vollmar and the others at World Literature Today for publishing my review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s the re in refuge.
#BookSky #authorinterview #memoir #bookclub #writing #writersky #kindlebooks #Bookstagram #Bookstodon #AuthorSky
worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/r...
Jamie Lee Curtis talks against it and doesn’t do it, and that matters. But you and me talking against it - especially you, dude, nothing personal - it’s not our livelihoods depending on media “beauty” standards.
Blackberry massacre ghost it is, then.
It’s an excellent tactic. I recommend it to any country attacked by this administration.
Iran is now bombing Amazon and Microsoft data centres.
“Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities… highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack.”
Live by the sword, die by the sword, I guess.
(I don’t mean to be glib. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google re selling their services to armies. Retaliation is inevitable.)
This might have something to do with the way a subset of people with apocalyptic beliefs are now wielding enormous power in the attempt to bring on the apocalypse.
Coffee splatters?
Yeah.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Colour photo of a wall, sienna yellow-pale with faded teal and red graffiti, in which a doorway with a square window above is set. The doorway has a standard late 19th/early 20th Century wrought iron gate, looking through ro a courtyard. There’s something appealing about the black iron and the colours of the sunlit wall, even though it’s a picture of neglect.
Ruins of Athens: Petralona
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
Western powers have been relying on minorities traumatized by genocide to serve as their muscle in this area since at least the Assyrian Levies. My fiance wrote her Master's Thesis on this: repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822...
My pleasure! Here you go: bsky.app/profile/comm...
It’s really interesting! I’m not sorry I’m reading it, but I did just skip through a bit on the audiobook and I think I’m about to do so again. It’s not something I’m I‘m in the habit of.
Thank you for recommending it. I am always grateful to receive recommendations of SFF books I don’t know.