One Christmas bvacation/b during college I determined to read the complete Greek tragedies, which is less formidable than it sounds. There are only twenty-nine of them extant, and they average maybe 1300 lines. Back then I got bogged down ... I told myself I'd read everything else before doing the bOresteia/b and the Oedipus cycle, but I couldn't hack it and am now in the middle of the Eumenides. Anyway, I'm impressed this time with the centrality of emotion in all the plays. ...
