Dale Favier created this poetry postcard with a scanned drawing (ball-point pen on diner napkin). He adds this background:
Theseus was of course rescued from the labyrinth by Ariadne, whom he then deserted on the isle of Naxos. There are multiple stories about why: I follow Chaucer, who followed Ovid, who thought he just got tired of her. (I belong to the “Theseus was a jerk” school.) But according to some stories he couldn’t help it, was driven off by storms, came back to find her dead, and set up a temple to her. “And that’s true too.”
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7 comments in “Naxos”
August 26th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Fantastic. Great drawing, and I love that it was done on a napkin; those eyes are hypnotic and the poetry’s wonderful…..chilling but wonderful. I’ve always been of the Theseus as jerk school too.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:21 am
This is marvelous.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I love the story telling, on all levels. The poem says nothing about “her” and leaves the art to do its own telling. “Sure feet of spiders” is arresting.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
You reveal more of your talents here-drawings on dinner napkins!
Theseus would dream of the spiders. There’s a mystery to the story, which adds intrigue to the poem. Nice work.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Wonderful drawing and poem. Love the movement in the words and the lines of the image.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Have just been reading Ovid. Lots of spiders, lots of stories. Marvelous, Dale!
August 31st, 2008 at 7:06 am
I quite liked the Mary Renault idea that he was so scandalised and terrified by witnessing what she got up to in the Dionysian rites on the island that he ran away. It doesn’t preclude him being a jerk.
I like the poem and picture very much. Must have been quite along wait for your order…
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