Handwritten notes for #incidentalmusic for #OscarWilde’s #Salome and #Euripides’s #Hippolytus, written for synthesizer and performed at productions of at the American School in Tangier in 1992 and 1993 respectively (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).
There’s never a shortage of Feast Days for our #Catholic & #Christian Friends, Today also is the Feast Day of:
Saint #Hippolytus (patron of horses, and prison guards)
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SARCOPHAGUS WITH PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS, C. 190 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN This splendid sarcophagus was found in 1931 along the via Prenestina, during the construction of via Muzio Attendolo in today's Pigneto district. It was found almost completely intact, with its rooflike lid with tragic masks at the corners still atop the box. It recounts the tragic story of Phaedra and Hippolytus, which is not a very frequent subject for tomb sculpture - I only know of one other, at S. Clemente. Here we have a wonderful composition full of symmetry. At left is the Minoan princess Phaedra, sister to Ariadne and also half-sister to the Minotaur. She's married to her sister's former beau Theseus, king of Athens, but in love with his sexy yet indifferent son Hippolytus. She declares her love, he recoils, she claims he's raped her, Theseus banishes him, she repents and confesses but it's too late, Hippolytus has driven his horse off a cliff, woe all around. Anyway Phaedra is sitting on a chair facing right, with her maids around her, at left, while at centre the nude (but for a cloak) Hippolytus is preparing to ride off, shown twice: the left-hand version is holding the notice of banishment and is unfinished, therefore representing the deceased, while a fully-finished and idealised version is leading his horse away. At right, the third group shows bearded Theseus sitting facing left, having just received the news of the death of Hippolytus. He looks perplexed rather than distraught, and is looking at a nursemaid holding one of his infant sons by Phaedra, Acamas or Demophon, as if wondering whether Hippolytus was the real father. What message this has about the afterlife is a mystery to me, unless the message is "Don't go around heroically nude and then expect your stepmother not to lust after you", which seems awfully specific.
#SarcophagusSaturday takes us to the #BathsofDiocletian in #Rome to admire a magnificent late-C2 CE #sarcophagus with the tale of #Phaedra and #Hippolytus, probably following the version of #Euripides which involves Phaedra's old nursemaid, who we see berating Hippolytus. Everyone looks pensive.
