<\/p>
During a literature exam today, one of my students exclaimed (in some frustration) that the Greeks never got over the Trojan War. That\u2019s exactly right. Homer wrote about it, some time after the event. Centuries later, tragedians like Aeschylus (Oresteian trilogy), Sophocles ( Electra <\/i> ), and Euripides ( Andromache <\/i> , Hecuba <\/i> ) couldn\u2019t stop writing about the aftermath of the war. Move on to Virgil, and we\u2019re just beginning to move on, from Aeneas\u2019s old burned-out Troy to the \u201cnew Troy\u201d of Rome. <\/p>\n
They couldn\u2019t get over the tragedy of the lost city. But then think of the Jews and Jerusalem. They mourned the city, for sure, but they believed (Virgil-like) that a new a greater city would rise from the ashes. They believed in resurrection, worshiped the God who raises the dead, and therefore they could move on. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During a literature exam today, one of my students exclaimed (in some frustration) that the Greeks never got over the Trojan War. That\u2019s exactly right. Homer wrote about it, some time after the event. Centuries later, tragedians like Aeschylus (Oresteian trilogy), Sophocles ( Electra ), and Euripides ( Andromache , Hecuba ) couldn\u2019t stop writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"yoast_head":"\n