The Oresteia

Aeschylus

Brought up on The Ezra Klein Show, most recently on 2026-08-14.

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Where it came up

• The Ezra Klein Show · The Warring Visions of American Power | The Ezra Klein Show · at 36:54 · 2026-08-14

  “there's this wonderful scholar at Yeshiva University who many years ago about the Eichmann trial wrote that we've never escaped the problem of the Oresteia, the Aeschylus play, that the submission of moral wrongs to a legal order”Discussed

Also mentioned in those episodes

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ISBN 9780199537815