Great Books Ep 75. Sophocles - Philoctetus. The Isle of Loneliness: The Psychological Toll of Isolation

Being left alone without any contact with anyone else is damaging to most people. The deprivation of human contact can lead to severe psychological consequences, including depression, and anxiety.

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“I pity him, to think how, with no man to care for him, and seeing no companion's face, suffering, lonely evermore, he is vexed by fierce disease, and bewildered by each want as it arises. How, how doth he endure in his misery?”

~ ‘Philoctetes’ by Sophocles (Richard. C. Jebb translation. GB5 - p. 183)

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