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s as he reads what tom s written tells him to move sections around this isn t the normal editing process but it s what they have as it happens i got to the final chapters where the need to learn storytelling becomes a compelling interest to well never mind to whom just know it does a fascinating tidbit rolled across my bluesky timeline it turns out the richest man in the world is trying to hire expert storytellers at a laughable price confirming his view of their worth to help grok learn to tell stories and this is while interest and funding for the humanities including creative writing and literary critique is declining in favor of vocational training i d laugh my ass off if it weren t so tragic i can t claim objectivity here every time jake has mentioned his work on this book i ve hinted that i hoped he d just send me a copy so i didn t have to wait for him to find the right publisher ok so he had to do it through kindle and by the way i hate kindle i have five books on kindle now and this is the only one i ve read that s how motivated i was it was worth it it s very funny very relevant and in just the right places very sweet and it s all about the story resources you too can own a virtual copy of this book for less than the cost of a cup of mediocre coffee or just read the full description for free at amazon in a post on his blog workshop heretic jake writes about why he wrote this novel and why he decided to self publish yes there really is or was a zendia as this novel tells us and it s described right there in wikipedia it s totally made up or is it but was used in the 50s to practice cryptography literary critic michael schaub takes a look at the recent ad for someone to teach ai a thing or two about storytelling share this share print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 1 comment posted in in between reading 2026 novels what i ve been reading writing reading tagged jacob weber greek mythology part 2 greek tragedy ibr2026 posted by karen carlson on january 28 2026 now i mention all of this not because i think it s important for you to remember it but to give you a sense of just how strange by our standards greek tragedy really is well okay at least it lasted for a long time right i mean so it s 2 500 years old but it lasted forever so it must have been important well actually no that lasted for a hundred years roughly from 500 to 400 bc roughly the length of one man s life and interestingly that s also the hundred years in which athenian democracy existed well it s not for a long time at least it was widespread right no in fact greek tragedy was largely restricted to athens and to the area around athens we think they were actually only performed once in these tragic festivals in one theater the theatre of dionysus on the slope of the acropolis so not for a long time not particularly widespread what have we got then we re gonna spend a whole semester on a strange literary form practiced 2 500 years ago for a short time in a single theater in a city with a population less than yonkers so why is this worth doing it looks as though tragedy ultimately implies a sad reality and nietzsche was right there s a chaos at the core of reality yet we learn if we re paying attention that oedipus doesn t learn we even learn why he doesn t learn and so it looks as though at a still deeper level in the way we ll try to read the tragedies this semester tragedies do seem to make sense of the world tragedy itself somehow detaches us enough from the world to teach us exactly how it s impossible to be detached from the world prof michael davis sarah lawrence college the philosophy of tragedy introductory lecture 1 because my objective here was to become familiar with greek mythology i m going to give short shrift to the history of tragedy and its structure those are topics worthy of deep dives but a cursory glance will do for now it seems tragedy grew out of both epic poetry including those recording the myths of antiquity and song and dance celebrations of dionysius scholars know of at least 324 plays by four playwrights aeschylus sophocles euripides and aristophanes who wrote comedies rather than tragedies but only 43 have survived complete to the current day it seems they were performed in a contest a sort of greece s got talent presumably the winners plays were the ones that survived but who knows what runners up we might enjoy today as far as structure aristotle wrote his poetic to teach us about that and it remained something of a standard of drama and eventually fiction for centuries as i browsed youtube for performances or lectures on greek tragedies i noticed something odd a great many videos about ancient greece have been created for sleep boring greek myths for sleep wind down tonight with a sleep story designed to calm your thoughts and ease you gently into deep rest this compilation of greek mythology sleep stories will take you on a journey through ancient times and beliefs and will help you ease towards a night of restful and relaxing sleep greek mythology sleep stories fall asleep to 9 hours of greek history asmr history learning asmr greek mythology are you guys out of your minds have they actually listened to the words stabbings kidnappings rapes incest exile deaths guaranteed nightmares i d say but let s move on when i started this project i wasn t sure how to proceed i remembered that erik rostad aka books of titans had done a read of the plays turns out he had a post suggesting various approaches i followed his suggestion to work on the theban plays which were set in the earliest times then the trojan plays and came back to the miscellaneous works set in a variety of times later i ignored aristophanes completely which troubles me he s important in that he s the andy borowitz of ancient greece making fun of various personages but i wanted to limit this investigation to mythology and i wanted to finish it in january so i merely salute him for now as i move on you may note i said i worked on the plays rather than i read them i confess i didn t read much of the plays though they re all readily available online in multiple translations i don t like reading drama and third there are a lot of them though most are fairly short it was by great fortune i happened across a gold mine reading greek tragedy online a set of 90 minute zoom sessions on each play recorded back during the pandemic by prof joel christensen of brandeis university and of the wonderful sententiae antiquae blog which i ve been following for a couple of years now currently examining the iliad in detail along with the center for hellenic studies at harvard university the out of chaos theatre in the uk and a broad array of tragic experts from around the world these included scenes from the plays discussions of important points to notice and notes on performance in most cases the translations used were available online it was an incredible experience and if you re thinking a play can t be performed on zoom you d be surprised one of the participants commented how restrictions generate creativity can you say oulipo and they showed it with lighting costuming implied interframe interaction and just with voice and expression acting in other words it was a tremendous way to learn about the plays i do still need to read them but for my objective of learning about mythology this was perfect another interesting aspect most of the zoom recordings covered was the interaction of the play set in a mythological past and the situation in athens at the time of their performance most frequently the peloponnesian war or forms of government the relevance to contemporary situations also came up frequently since many of the plays involve the way refugees immigrants and women are treated by society here are some of my impressions from the plays i enjoyed the most or learned the most from euripides the bacchae i have to admit i was less interested in the theban plays the bacchae introduces dionysus and continues the myth of cadmus which is where i focused my attention herodotus believed cadmus had introduced the alphabet to greece that s not totally off the wall cadmus was from phoenicia and it was the phoenician alphabet the greeks adopted when they began writing again following their dark age but cadmus the character comes with other baggage particularly a curse from slaying the sacred dragon and that propels itself throughout the theban myths such as sophocles oedipus tyrannus i learned a while ago never to call it oedipus rex to a classicist for you will be scolded for mixing greek and latin oedipus at colonus and antigone the thebais from the epic cycle contains the core of the story of aeschylus seven against thebes which generates several other plays dealing with the aftermath greek tragedy like the mythology incorporated variations and contradictions euripides the phoenician women for instance has oedipus and jocasta still alive it also contains the line a refugee must put up with any fool in power which resonated at the time of the zoom recording five years ago as much as it does now euripides iphigenia at aulis and iphigenia at tauris when i read about the cypria from the epic cycle i was very glad to finally understand the sacrifice of iphigenia this play really drives it home greek tragedy is built on reversals and here everyone reverses themselves agamemnon at first refuses to sacrifice his daughter well duh but when the troops all eager to go kick trojan butt if he can only get artemis to let the winds blow start to get restless he changes his mind achilles shows up thinking he s about to be married and discovers he s a lure iphigenia herself at first horrified that she s been summoned to what she thought was her wedding but is actually her execution becomes the unsung hero of the trojan war facing her death with courage unmatched by any of the war hungry men and the messenger an unnamed messenger gives the speech of a lifetime reporting on the sacrifice but the priest seizing his knife offered up a prayer and was closely scanning the maiden s throat to see where he should strike it was no slight sorrow filled my heart as i stood by with bowed head when there was a sudden miracle each one of us distinctly heard the sound of a blow but none saw the spot where the maiden vanished the priest cried out and all the army took up the cry at the sight of a marvel all unlooked for due to some god s agency and passing all belief although it was seen for there upon the ground lay a deer of immense size magnificent to see gasping out her life with whose blood the altar of the goddess was thoroughly bedewed then spoke calchas thus his joy you can imagine you captains of this leagued achaean army do you see this victim which the goddess has set before her altar a mountain roaming deer this is more welcome to her by far than the maid that she may not defile her altar by shedding noble blood gladly she has accepted it and is granting us a prosperous voyage for our attack on ilium therefore take heart sailors each man of you and away to your ships for today we must leave the hollow bays of aulis and cross the aegean main euripides iphigenia at aulis so did iphigenia die or not is he perhaps telling a lie to soothe the emotions of among others mother clytemnestra apparently it didn t work since mom had her vengeance ten years later in the agamemnon though it s always possible she had other more personally advantageous reasons as well euripides wrote a sequel iphigenia in tauris which seems to bear out the messenger s news that second play by the way is also very interesting as prof christensen says it has the longest most dramatic recognition scene in all tragedy and the actors didn t let zoom be a hindrance at all to their performance sophocles philoctetes the basis of this play is from the little iliad of the epic cycle he s also mentioned as being in absentia in the iliad he s in absentia because odysseus left him behind on the island of lemnos because he had a stinky foot ok technically it was a wound that was stinky but odysseus didn t like it so they sailed off and left him on the island for almost ten years until an omen told them they needed his bow the bow of heracles to defeat troy philoctetes had been given the bow of heracles if you re talking to a classicist never call him hercules in a greek context it was decades before i realized they were the same guy because he lit the pyre that burned away heracles mortal flesh and freed his immortal being and now that bow was key to victory so odysseus accompanied by neoptolemus achilles son went back to get him stinky foot and all as might be imagined he s in no mood to be cooperative and his foot still stinks and hurts the play is a marvelous balance of neoptolemus as a young innocent who wants to convince philoctetes to return for the good of the hellenes to be a hero all that and wily odysseus who just wants the kid to trick the old guy into putting the bow down then steal it odysseus i m ordering you to use deceitful means to seize philoctetes neoptolemus but why deceit why not persuade him odysseus the man won t listen and he s not someone you can take by force neoptolemus is he that confident that powerful odysseus indeed he is his arrows never miss every shot brings death neoptolemus i have no chance at all if i move out to challenge him odysseus none whatsoever unless as i ve said you use some trick to grab him neoptolemus so you don t think there s any shame in saying something false odysseus no i don t not if the lies will save us neoptolemus but how can anyone control his face when he dares speak such lies odysseus when what you do brings benefits you should not hesitate odysseus by doing this work you ll garner two rewards neoptolemus how if i knew that i d not refuse it odysseus in this one act you ll get yourself a name for shrewdness and nobility neoptolemus all right i ll do it i ll set all shame aside sophocles philoctetes ian johnston translator neoptolemus gives in then feels guilty and gives the bow back this is the kid who just a short time later in another play is going to throw a baby from the walls of burning troy and take the baby s mother as his slave so don t get too attached when philoctetes finds out odysseus is behind all this he refuses to help them and asks neoptolemus to take him back to his homeland it looks like that s what s going to happen until heracles shows up on the deus ex machina which before it became a literary term was an actual machine used to bring the gods into the play he tells philoctetes to go to troy and kill paris and win the war 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