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Saturday, May 27, 2017

U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War

The ancient Greeks didn’t go to the theater just to be entertained. Aristotle believed that audiences saw themselves reflected in tragic characters and that the very act of watching a character’s downfall helped purge them of emotions like pity and ...


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