A Greek Tragedy

7th June 2007
By Nicos A Rolandis

The texture of the Cyprus problem is like the dramatic process of an ancient Greek tragedy, whose epilogue is characterised by catharsis. How and who can bring catharsis to Cyprus, in order to purge the sins and the blunders of the two Cypriot communities over the past fifty years? Could the three great tragic poets of Ancient Greece, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides ever pinpoint the source of evil and the nature of catharsis which should follow?

Following these questions, I concl…