The Stories We Tell: Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis and Pericles’s Funeral Oration
Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Published online on May 31, 2026
Abstract
Political Theory, Ahead of Print.
How to address the grief that attends the inevitable loss in war of those we love? How to turn victims of war into heroes? How to resolve the agonizing choices that war imposes on us? Euripides’sIphigenia at Aulis, the tale of Agamemnon’s sacrifice of ...
How to address the grief that attends the inevitable loss in war of those we love? How to turn victims of war into heroes? How to resolve the agonizing choices that war imposes on us? Euripides’sIphigenia at Aulis, the tale of Agamemnon’s sacrifice of ...