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when you approach any of these great men, keep this in mind, that you’re meeting a figure from tragedy, and no mere actor either, but Oedipus in person.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
“Your wife then. What if it had been your wife?” He looked up at me. “What do you wish me to say? That I would not have done it?” “Yes.” “I would not have. But perhaps that is why Agamemnon is king of Mycenae, and I rule only Ithaca.” Too easily his answers came to him. His patience enraged me.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Do not let it be so. Do not leave me here without him. The kings exchange glances. “Very well,” Agamemnon says. “It shall be as you say.” I am air and thought and can do nothing.