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Robert Kaplan: The Tragic Mind

The Book Club

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Is There a Gap Between Shakespeare and the Ancient Greeks?

There's this idea that the ancient Greeks have some very sort of eternal concerns, which archetypaly affect us now. Is there any sort of anxiety that actually they're unlike us in such profound ways that their lessons are going to have to be skewed if you like? They're Unlike us in so many small and profound ways, but it's the similarities that I find fascinating,.

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