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Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an 'inexhaustible voice,' as the ancient Greeks knew

  • Written by Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
image'Antigone leads Oedipus out of Thebes' painting by Charles Francois Jalabert.Collection Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille via Wikimedia Commons

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