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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, An Audience in Athens During Agamemnon by Aeschylus by William Blake Richmond (1842-1921); oil on canvas; 1884; (Wikimedia Commons) The source of Greek or Western morality is fifth century tragedy; or so historians of ethics have long argued. Yet, Socrates (Σωκράτης) would be appalled by the ethics of tragedy. Hence, as critics, we are left to investigate this fissure in the pedagogical concrete. What is it about fifth century tragedy, in particular, that historians of ethics see an archetypal model; and why would Socrates vehemently disagree? Tragedy is to be understood as the imitation of an action. If there is anything educational to be taken from tragedy, it is its abi

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