On Euripides And War: An Historical Analysis Of Hecuba, Trojan Women, And Iphegenia At Aulis
On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis
History is written. It did not happen. What did happen can only be described and recorded. Of the records that exist today society judges which are “fact,” which are and which are “fictional.” One striking feature that all records share is a preoccupation with war. This is not surprising, however, since a convolution of all records during a specific time span will show that somewhere war was being waged. What exactly this says about humanity is not here discussed. Instead, a singular instance of one particular consequence of war is discussed. War is waged by humans, that is to say, war is effected by humans. Humans are in turn affected by war. The record of these affects is incomplete because the affects are infinitely numerous, interconnected, and subtle. Consequently, some humans have tried to make sense of these affects through means other than records and standard analysis. One such......
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