{"id":420,"date":"2010-11-24T17:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=420"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:22:25","slug":"analects-of-the-core-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/24\/analects-of-the-core-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Aeschylus on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"174\" width=\"457\" alt=\"from the Eumenides\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/greek.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-421 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/greek.jpg 457w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/greek-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Marriage of man and wife is Fate itself,<br \/>\nstronger than oaths, and Justice guards its life.<br \/>\nBut if one destroys the other and you relent &#8212;<br \/>\nno revenge, not a glance in anger &#8212; then<br \/>\nI say your manhunt of Orestes is unjust.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Apollo addressing the Leader,\u00a0 in Aeschylus&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/Aeschylus\/eumendides.html\"><em>Eumenides<\/em><\/a>, the final play in his <em>Oresteia <\/em>trilogy (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oresteia-Agamemnon-Libation-Eumenides-Classics\/dp\/0140443339\">translation for Penguin<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Fagles\">Robert Fagles<\/a>, p.240, lines 215-19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage of man and wife is Fate itself, stronger than oaths, and Justice guards its life. But if one destroys the other and you relent &#8212; no revenge, not a glance in anger &#8212; then I say your manhunt of Orestes is unjust. &#8212; Apollo addressing the Leader,\u00a0 in Aeschylus&#8217;s Eumenides, the final play in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[2232,48735,3689,4226,2231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}