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Plagues follow bad leadership in ancient Greek tales
In the fifth century B.C., the playwright Sophocles begins “Oedipus Tyrannos” with the title character struggling to identify the cause of a plague striking his city, Thebes.
As someone who writes about early Greek poetry, I spend a lot of time thinking about why its performance was so crucial to ancient life.
- Joel Christensen
- The Conversation
One answer is that epic and tragedy helped ancient storytellers and audiences try to make sense of…