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Simon Critchley: Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Hardcover, 2019, Pantheon) 4 stars

Really gets you pumped on Greek Tragedy

4 stars

This is a really feisty and enthusiastic take on Greek tragedy.

I don’t want to spoil it but there’s a lot of great stuff about why tragedy is a worthwhile thing to read right now, how heroes and wars fucked up everything, and how Greek tragedy gave voices to the people most affected by this.

Sometimes he gets a little off track but he does a good job of reigning it back in.