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Erika Weiberg

Erika Weiberg

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
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Scholarly Works - Book sections

Learning to Bear Witness: Tragic Bystanders in Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Book section · January 1, 2020 Drawing on trauma theory and writing about the Holocaust, this chapter argues that Sophocles’ Trachiniae is attuned to the complexities not just of surviving trauma, but also of bearing witness to it. Three levels of bearing witness to trauma can be identi ... Cite

Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Heracles

Book section · August 1, 2018 Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Heracles stage a warrior’s suicide and rejection of suicide, respectively, as confrontations with weapons as material friends and foes. Drawing connections between recent work on moral injury and the new materialist concept o ... Cite