Has war healed Ukraine's great divide?

Trojan Women: How Epic Theater Exposes 2,500 Years of Brutality

I am not a Trojan woman, and even less an author from ancient Greece. Yet these women’s tribulations in the aftermath of the defeat of Troy by the Greeks resonate with me today, 2,500 years later. Ancient literature is a deep mirror that allows us to search amongst the many paths our souls have trodden to arrive at where we are. Have we made any progress?The Iliad contains a dispute about the value of a woman. A few centuries later, Euripides, t…

Has war healed Ukraine's great divide?

War is a terrible thing. Its toll is often immeasurable. And yet, even a tragedy of this scale has taught us something

Has war healed Ukraine’s great divide?

The phrase divide et impera has echoed through history, its power as relevant today as it was in ancient Rome. Divide and conquer; rule through division. Rulers, then and now, have wielded this principle like a double-edged sword – deepening rifts to maintain control, ensuring that wounds never fully heal. At best, they turn into scars, waiting to be torn open again at the slightest provocation. War is a terrible thing. And yet, even a tragedy o…