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Date Posted: 20:19:19 02/23/09 Mon
Author: Carol P
Subject: Thanks, Jessie. After I finish smacking my forehead repeatedly on the floor in embarrassment, I'm going to marvel at the things I forgot. I plead 50 years passage since I read about Jocasta, but it's downright humiliating not to have placed Duncan; I was taken with bloody hands and ghosts instead of names. Phaedre is new to me, now I have something else to read. I raise a glass of Scotch to you while I giggle over your last sentence.
In reply to: JessieR 's message, "Hi Carol—Salaam back! Two of the “tragic figures” are from Greek literature: Jocasta, mother/wife of Oedipus, and Phaedre, wife of Theseus, who fell in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. As you might expect, the lives of these women end badly, both through suicide. (There are several versions of the play, Phaedre, so there may be one where she lives—I don’t know for sure). >>>inside for the guys>>>" on 19:10:29 02/23/09 Mon


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[> [> [> Interesting. I knew a little of this, but not in anywhere near this much detail. Thanks! -- Karen Henry, 05:28:54 02/24/09 Tue


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