Friday, July 5, 2024

Crazy Historical, Classically Theatrical

 


A new Irish novel set in 412 B.C.

Captive Athenian soldiers putting on Euripides' tragedy MEDEA in the quarries of Syracuse at the direction of two Syracausan potters . . . .

Inventive, lively -- and deeply grim, as most war stories must be.  I am on page 59 and will keep reading.