{"product_id":"tyrtaeus-a-tragedy-lajos-walder","title":"Tyrtaeus: A Tragedy - Lajos Walder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWritten in the early 1940s under the Nazi reign of terror and set in ancient Sparta during the Second Messenean War in the 7th century BCE, \"Tyrtaeus\" dramatizes contemporary ethical and political concerns—the brutality of totalitarianism, the precariousness of democracy and human rights, and the sociopolitical role of poetry and art more generally—through the prism of Greek elegiac poet Tyrtaeus’ involvement in the conflict: first as a prisoner of war and, subsequently, as a newly-minted Spartan general who—as decreed by the Delphic Oracle—is ironically destined to lead Sparta to victory. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA perennial play that speaks to all ages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpper West Side Philosophers, Inc. 2017, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"Yjhzub\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eLajos Walder (1913–1945):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Arguably one of the most significant modern Hungarian poets. A Jewish lawyer by trade, he was barred from practicing due to rising antisemitism and forced into a Hungarian labor battalion. He tragically died in the Gunskirchen concentration camp on the day of its liberation. His family safely preserved his manuscripts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which were later translated into English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum Donation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45098293919813,"sku":"203412","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/tyrtaeus-a-tragedy-lajos-walder-tyrtaeus-8002086.jpg?v=1781030107","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/tyrtaeus-a-tragedy-lajos-walder","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}