What would Aristotle do?

hmmmm? Suitable fare for Friday the 13th. Classics Professor Edith Hall was on BBC Start the Week in October talking with others about inheritance. Now me, I trained in genetics, but I found the fellow holding up ancient DNA for inspection was much less interesting than the novelist talking about [lies] truth and reconciliation in South Africa. But Prof Hall was compelling in her tales of serial atrocity-of-honour in the ancient Greek canon. The Blob has been uncomfortable in the Orestian slaughterhouse with Colm Tóibín in January.I was so taken with Hall's talk on BBC, that I requested her Facing Down the Furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks and me (2024) [review] from the library. It's a page-turner, although I guess not everybody's cup of tea. The Furies Ἐρινύες were the agents of vengeance in the old days. Ensuring that disagreements, accidents and misunderstandings could never be resolved but rather amplified and polarized through reciprocal atrocity until the end of time. Like…

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