In the tragic play Antigone, Sophocles nodded his head to a near-universal human truth: “No man delights in the bearer of bad news.”
The recent film Northman is a surreal saga of one man’s revenge quest amid Norse myth and relentless brutality. The main character witnesses his father and then half of his hometown be murdered by his uncle and uncle’s followers. He barely escapes, only to witness his mother being carried off by the traitors. He swears to avenge his father and rescue his mother.
Dr. Mark Mayfield joins Gary Wilkerson for a conversation on mental health and self-awareness.
You probably have thalassophobia, though you may not use that word to describe one of the world’s most common fears.