On today’s “All Things Considered” Quail Lawrence reported on a traveling production of Sophocles’ tragedy Philoctetes, a classic portrayal of the PTSD that plagues veterans not only today, but in antiquity as well. Peter Meineck, artistic director of the Aquila Theater Company, has staged the production with a cast consisting mostly of veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He will deliver the annual Moore Lecture for the Department of Classics at Trinity this coming fall.

In 2008, Bryan Doerries organized a similar production, The Philoctetes Project, which offered staged readings of the same play to help veterans work through their experiences.