Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me by Edith Hall

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

Edith Hall

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, "The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have c...

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