Monday, January 16, 2023
There Is No Rising Again
Aeschylus, Eumenides 648-649 (tr. Walter Headlam):
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But when a man is once dead and the dust hath swallowed up his blood, there is no more rising again then.On dust's thirst for blood see Douglas Cairns, "The bloody dust of the nether gods: Sophocles, Antigone 599–603," in Eyjólfur K. Emilsson et al., edd., Paradeigmata: Studies in Honour of Øivind Andersen (Athens: Norwegian Institute at Athens, 2014), pp. 39-51 (esp. pp. 39-45).
ἀνδρὸς δ' ἐπειδὰν αἷμ' ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις
ἅπαξ θανόντος, οὔτις ἔστ' ἀνάστασις.
