In Friedrich Schiller’s poem “The Cranes of Ibykus,” when the poet Ibykus is murdered in a forest by a troop of thugs, he thinks himself alone. There appears to be no avenging justice or potential witness to right the historical wrongs or reveal what truly happened on that day. By the time the poet is discovered disfigured in a forest, his murderers hav…
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