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Figure 4: The Syrian Trojan Women Project
One of them said to me “the brother (Polynices) buried outside the walls of Thebes with-
out a proper funeral in Antigone is MY brother—that’s what the drama means to me”. So
these were real people inserted, as it were, into an ancient drama, as if part of yourself was
inhabiting the old story—that story was a framework for their narrative ... a somehow
cathartic experience for each of them. They weren’