Elektra, etc.

The other day I noticed that the guy in the next office, the other company's CFO, was reading Aeschylus, of all things. We got into a surprisingly interesting conversation about Agamemnon, Klytemnestra, Orestes, Elektra, an eye for an eye leaving everyone dead or accursed, how amazing 4th/5th century Greece was--It was a pleasant surprise to find someone else in the office interested in one of my intellectual hobby-horses.

Coincidentally, I went a little Classical-Greece-crazy at the bookstore, last weekend:

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