Monday, January 16, 2023

 

There Is No Rising Again

Aeschylus, Eumenides 648-649 (tr. Walter Headlam):
But when a man is once dead and the dust hath swallowed up his blood, there is no more rising again then.

ἀνδρὸς δ' ἐπειδὰν αἷμ' ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις
ἅπαξ θανόντος, οὔτις ἔστ' ἀνάστασις.
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).



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