Honoring Veterans Day with General Sophocles
The most enduring theater of Western Civilization was created by combat veterans. "Ancient Greek drama was a form of storytelling, communal therapy, and ritual reintegration for combat veterans by combat veterans. Sophocles himself was a general. At the time Aeschylus wrote and produced his famous Oresteia, Athens was at war on six fronts. The audiences for...
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