Last week I
reread Euripdes’ Suppliant Women, generally not considered one of his better
plays, but an effective one. Like many of his dramas it is fiercely antiwar. I cannot help remembering Kurt Vonnegut’s
quip in Slaughter House Five: That writing an antiwar novel is like
writing an anti-iceberg novel. Euripides fiercely wrote against the
Peloponnesian War in his plays. Yet Athens was defested and its democracy
suspended temporarily,
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