How can it be that a play written 2400 years ago has so much resonance today? Nation columnist Katha Pollitt talks to Dean about Lysistrata, as well as other ancient Greek texts that seem to be coming up in conversation more and more as we contemplate war. Pollitt also happens to be a poet. Here’s what she read for us.
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