By Jane Cahill
Medea betrayed her father and left her native land for the affection of Jason. Then while he deserted her, she murdered her young children. yet did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten years she plotted the homicide of her husband Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Conqueror of Troy. How might she have instructed her tale?
The Greek myths as we all know them have been informed for males through males. but they have been the end result of a protracted oral culture within which either women and men shared. utilizing extant old literary resources as her consultant, together with the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides and Apollodorus, Jane Cahill reconstructs the tales as they may were advised to ladies by means of girls. those are tales of wronged girls, encouraged ladies, made up our minds ladies, delicate ladies. Medusa tells the way it is to understand that one examine her face will flip a guy to stone, to be hated and feared for all time. Jocasta, Queen of Thebes, confesses her love for the younger guy who got here to cave her urban from the Sphinx―her son, Oedipus.
every one tale is observed via vast notes which debate the traditional assets, clarify suitable Greek innovations and customs, and function a advisor to additional studying.
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I began in my children's bedrooms, graduated to their classrooms, and went on from there. I once found myself telling the story of Jocasta and her husband\son Oedipus to a Brownie pack. In the summer of 1990 Kay Stone suggested that she and I join with Mary Louise Chown to form a trio of oral storytellers. "Earthstory" was formed that fall. We have since performed at art galleries, museums, storytelling festivals, conferences, and more. Our rehearsals are the chaos from which whole worlds are born.
Look," I said, "look. This is your son. " PROCNE: I watched his face change. 27 PHILOMELA: He picked up his sword and ran at us, but we were quicker, you and I. We ran from him and though he followed, raging, sword in hand, he could not catch us. 28 PROCNE: I remember. 29 Page 28 PHILOMELA: Do you hear the swallow, sister, the soft, light swallow? Perhaps she has a tale to tell. PROCNE: And do you hear the nightingale, singing the grief of the old time? They say she has an ache to bear that passes understanding.
It is this: Is it possible to produce a version of this story that would have made sense to Greek women? The most obvious difficulty is that there would have been as many different versions of each story as there were women who told themwomen from different eras, places, and backgrounds. , who perhaps was ruled by a queen and probably knew the power of a Great Goddess, have had in common with the wife of an Athenian citizen from the fifth century who lived a controlled, preordained existence and was without legal and political rights?