Aristotle & Friends

Ajax and Fort Hood

Posted by profpam - 23/11/09 at 07:11:57 pm

From the NY Times: PTSD and war – a perspective from Sophocles.

The ancient Greeks had a shorthand for the mental anguish of war, for post-traumatic stress disorder and even for outbursts of fratricidal bloodshed like last week’s shootings at Fort Hood. They would invoke the names of mythological military heroes who battled inner demons: Achilles, consumed by the deaths of his men; Philoctetes, hollowed out from betrayals by fellow officers; Ajax, warped with so much rage that he wanted to kill his comrades.

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  I am Dr. Pamela Hood. I'm an associate professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

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