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Book Review – Antigone, Does Fate Manipulate Man?

How helpless are we in the face of fate? Sophocles Antigone explores the nature of tragic fate and the implications for human agency.   With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labor’d it to grow: And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d-. “I came like Water, and like Wind I go.” This is a poem from Omar Khayyam’s Rubáiyát. I always think of this poem...