Blackboard inscription at Crocker-Harris’ desk: π όθωι δ ’ ὑ π ερ π οντί α ς

1. Browning Version, dir. by A. Asquith (Javelin Films, 1951; released Criterion Collection 2005); based upon the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan. Blackboard inscription at Crocker-Harris’ desk: πόθωιδ’ ὑπερποντίας φάσμα δόξειδόμωνἀνάσσειν· εὐμόρφωνδὲκολοσσῶν ἔχθεταιχάριςἀνδρί, ὀμμάτωνδ’ ἐνἀχηνίαις ἔρρει πᾶσ’ Ἀφροδίτα. [Aesch. Ag. 414-419, unidentified] R. Browning trans. (1877) OGCMA0071Agamemnon_Browning: ”And, through desire of one across the main,A ghost will seem within the house to reign.And hateful to the husband is the graceOf well-shaped statues: for -- in place of eyesThose blanks -- all Aphrodite dies. “ OGCMA0072NOTAgamemnon_Rattigan Chorus in 1ststasimon, 2nd strophe (Collard trans): "She left for the townsmen the tumult of warriors, /companies forming, sailors arming; in place of a dowry she brought Troy its destruction. She flitted lightly off through the gates / and was gone, her daring past all daring. With much groaning the house-prophets spoke: / 'The house! Oh, the house, alas, and its chiefs! The marriage-bed, the steps of a wife in love! / Here is silence, and dishonor seen in those deserted; and they do not revile, they do not plead. In his longing for her over the sea / her phantom will seem to rule in the house. The grace of shapely statues / is hateful to the husband; / in their lack of eyes all love's being goes lost." 13:20 start Ffwd -> 27:30 Thru ca. 33:00 Also in background: a plaster-cast of a Victory fastening a sandal from balustrade of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis (408 BC), Athens Acropolis Museum