Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: It's scary season (the week before the U.S. election). Rachel Hadas, a professor of ...

It's scary season (the week before the U.S. election). Rachel Hadas, a professor of English at Rugers University, has written this piece for npub1cy06su88dl9crjvthx56mdpgd0m9dauplnjf58rvcqynj6p8uygq9uggw4 (npub1cy0…ggw4) about how the classics speak to these times. "Characters in Greek tragedies can make terrible decisions, be subject to madness, destroy themselves and others — but they are rarely afraid. The fear and pity Aristotle ascribes to tragedy are the emotions of the spectator," she writes.

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