Tragedy

“When you lose control and you got no soul, it’s tragedy.” (Bee Gees)

If only the Ancient Greeks had access to the internet, then they would have had no need to wallow in sorry dramasabout the sufferings of their woe-begotten protagonists.

Picture the scene in Athens, circa 450BCE:

(Aeschlyus enters the Cornerside Café where Euripides and Sophocles are sat at a table knocking back the ouzo.)

Aeschlyus: By my curly beard, Rippy,I’ve just spent a gloomy morning with my son writing this new pla...