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Antigonick by Sophocles

5.0

dark funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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‘How is a Greek chorus like a lawyer theyre both in the business of searching for a precedent finding an analogy locating a prior example so as to be able to say this terrible thing we’re witnessing now is not unique you know it happened before or something much like it we’re not at a loss how to think about this we’re not without guidance there is a pattern we can find an historically parallel case and file it away (…) now i could dig up those case histories, tell you about Danaos and Lykourgos and the sons of Phineas people locked in a room or a cave or their own dark mind it wouldnt help you it didnt help me its friday afternoon there goes Antigone to be buried alive is there any way we can say this is normal rational forgivable or even in the wildest definition just /  no not really’