Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me Scott Jeffrey Miller Stalingrad is a testament to

Stalingrad is a testament to the vital role of the Soviet war effort

his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is

one of the many high points in the Icehouse story

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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me Scott Jeffrey Miller Stalingrad is a testament toAn award winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves. In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, "The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves." Edith Hall, whose