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Sam Turrigiano

Columnist — Class of 2026

Number of articles: 7

First Article: October 21, 2022

Latest Article: April 11, 2025

Dialogues of the Dead

Aeschylus: Justice born from tragedy

The beginning of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” is frustratingly parochial. The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words, archaic grammar, tangled syntax that makes translation a task of genuine suffering. Translator Emily Wilson, …

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