AESCHYLUS IN GAZA
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on what Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy can tell us about the Gaza conflict, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 5 November 2023, under the headline “In the Middle East, as in Greek tragedy, justice must prevail over moral absolutism”. Watching the tragedy unfold in Israel and Palestine has sometimes felt like reading the Oresteia backwards. A trilogy of plays by Aeschylus, written in the fifth century BC, the Oresteia tells of the transformation of ancient Greece from a society rooted in blood […]
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