Aesop and Oedipus in the Euro Zone
“One of the key things about Greek tragedies and Greek mythology is that they endure and that thousands of years later we still draw lessons from them.”
Kai Ryssdal NPR interviewer – Marketplace Oct. 24 2011.
In this interview a classics professor – Emily Allen Hornblower from Rutgers University – uses the familiar Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper, as well as the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King, to make some interesting points about the ongoing crisis in Greece.
