But my takeaway from the bit where Theseus abandons Ariadne on the beach has always been that Theseus IS in fact the absolute worst, so that characterization absolutely checks out.
I genuinely like Renault's revision where Theseus must relinquish Phaedra because she has already been claimed by Dionysos, although I have noticed over the years that she treats the sparagmos with more horror and the madness of the maenads with more masculine judgment than I feel is necessary or appropriate; I would like sometime to see someone who isn't Mary Renault try the same reordering of events. That said, my personal versions of Ariadne all seem to agree that Theseus is the worst.
To everybody in this thread, I want to recommend Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), which rushthatspeakswrote about when we saw it aaagh ten years ago.
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I genuinely like Renault's revision where Theseus must relinquish Phaedra because she has already been claimed by Dionysos, although I have noticed over the years that she treats the sparagmos with more horror and the madness of the maenads with more masculine judgment than I feel is necessary or appropriate; I would like sometime to see someone who isn't Mary Renault try the same reordering of events. That said, my personal versions of Ariadne all seem to agree that Theseus is the worst.
To everybody in this thread, I want to recommend Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), which