The Destructive Power of the Family, From Oedipus to the Godfather

Published: April 18, 2023, 6:20 a.m.

Family has been an inexhaustible source of conflict for writers from the ancient to modern worlds \u2013 maybe even more inexhaustible than war. From Greek dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles to Confucius, family is a source of both self-destruction and...