This book illustrates in a timely and important fashion the ways in which the ancient world can arm us with hermeneutical tools to process trauma and conflict. In this fifth year of an ongoing pandemic, with countless examples of “tragic” conflict, loss, and injustice firmly imprinted into the human consciousness by autopsy and media amplification, Telò’s observation that “the poetic form of ten emblematic plays of Greek tragedy can speak to us about the pandemic as well as the crises it has aggravated and come to epitomize” (4) calls us to consider how we as humans respond to forces outside our control and how those forces are not endemic to any one time or place. This process of reading necessitates two simultaneous vectors of interpretation, from the past into the present and vice versa: “This interpretive approach entails not simply reading tragedy through the pandemic, reading the pandemic into tragedy … but also using the ‘stasis of constant crisis’—the defining psychic atmosphere of the moment, the Zeitgeist of no-time or of saturated time—to inhabit the unsettling non-normativity, the queerness of tragic feeling” (3, emphasis original).