Teachable moment for creative people
Tonight's News Hour had a review of a new production of Euripedes' Medea with Annette Bening in a spectacular imagining of the title role.
What do you think your chances are of writing something that is still that compelling and fresh in 2440 years? Do you think Euripedes could have imagined it?
What do you think your chances are of writing something that is still that compelling and fresh in 2440 years? Do you think Euripedes could have imagined it?
posted by Uncle | 23:41
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I hold out hopes, Uncle B, fueled too when I run across an good to great piece of new literature. I recall too how my Greek prof in college used to delight in letting us know that only the losing plays from the Greek contests survived. We get the second or third best by the ruling of the Athenian and other judges of the time. Much of what was published then as now was crap. The occasional gem is still rare. Unfortunately, much of publishing is still friends of friends. I fret more about what remarkable lit might be rejected and not surface in our lifetime.
Euripedes would probably rather have the laurels than the posthumous fame...as would we all.
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