Tag Archives: Eumenides

Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2023

In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.

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Through Lit, We Learn Compassion

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2019

Tuesday My brother Sam, an enthusiastic Unitarian Universalist, gave me Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life for Christmas, and I was pleased that the author sees literature playing a major role. In today’s post I share how she draws on the ancient Greeks. Armstrong writes, “All faiths insist that compassion is the test […]

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Drama Shows Us a Way Out of Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: March 14, 2016

New School philosophy professor Simon Critchley argues that theatre and the arts in general are vital in helping societies understand and moderate endemic violence. Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” are particularly important.

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