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Aeschylean

Aeschylean Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/496/1301598/496valles.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 POETRY AND FI CTI ON Alissa Valles 1 Cabeiri But I do not treat you as an omen of my journey — K abeiroi Not even gods but the rumor of gods, not just minor ones, less than that, dwarfs — these are those whose cult I practice, not because I’ve ever been to Lemnos or to Thebes, or even Samothrace to be initiated into the mysteries, but because I cannot see any haven or omen of a haven, because I’m not a woman, just the rumor of a woman: neither destination nor point of origin, not a vessel but a dry dock where the ship of the future is forever under repair. Epigraphs are from Aeschylus: Fragments, Loeb Classical Library 505, ed. and trans. Alan H. Sommerstein (Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). Common Knowledge 27:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-9265325 © 2021 by Alissa Valles 496 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/496/1301598/496valles.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 By the wedlock of the rain she comes to her fulfilment — Danaid s The plot of this drama, too, unknown to us, lost like a stone- age beetle whose wings, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Aeschylean

Valles, Alissa
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (3) – Aug 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/496/1301598/496valles.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 POETRY AND FI CTI ON Alissa Valles 1 Cabeiri But I do not treat you as an omen of my journey — K abeiroi Not even gods but the rumor of gods, not just minor ones, less than that, dwarfs — these are those whose cult I practice, not because I’ve ever been to Lemnos or to Thebes, or even Samothrace to be initiated into the mysteries, but because I cannot see any haven or omen of a haven, because I’m not a woman, just the rumor of a woman: neither destination nor point of origin, not a vessel but a dry dock where the ship of the future is forever under repair. Epigraphs are from Aeschylus: Fragments, Loeb Classical Library 505, ed. and trans. Alan H. Sommerstein (Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). Common Knowledge 27:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-9265325 © 2021 by Alissa Valles 496 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/496/1301598/496valles.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 By the wedlock of the rain she comes to her fulfilment — Danaid s The plot of this drama, too, unknown to us, lost like a stone- age beetle whose wings,

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