Prologue Eusebeia – piety for the gods — was the common thread that tied the Greeks together, the other being of speaking Greek. We see eusebeia in most plays of the tragic poets of the fifth century BCE. Sophokles / Sophocles, without doubt Athens’ and Greece’s (and the world’s) greatest tragic poet, took that thread More

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