SVU and Greek Tragedy

I like Law & Order: SVU, despite a bookish sort. I was contemplating why this cop show would so draw me, when many others have no effect whatsoever. I have decided that there is a particular reason beyond good writing and acting. As a Classics scholar, the materials regarded as fundamental reading in the field cover such distasteful subjects as incest, rape, and cannibalism. The ability to treat the bllody kin-slaughter of the house of Atreus as a routine matter desensitizes the most empathetic classicist to some of the graphic occurances on the television and in the movies. If you've read the history of the late Roman Republic, the violence and treachery of the Sopranos are mundane occurences. SVU, however, still retains the capacity to intrigue me. It can only thrive by increasingly complex carnal mysteries which surpass those established in the Greek classical canon.

Adventus Penitentiae

Hoc vespero ad templum Divi Didaci ad diem Martis penitentiosum celebrandum veni. Multi liberi media in aula ludunt, mulieres flexibilibus in sedibus garriunt, aliae mulieres un culina coquunt. Post Iesum Christum dominum nostrum nostra pastrix Maria Maura invocaverat, omnes ieiunaturi edunt. Dicuntur fratres graecos non edere nec carnem nec caesum aetati penitentiae.

Diebus recentibus videre mutationes de ictibus casuum Danaum conatus sum, volvens ascensus descensusque et lingua et voce, legens meum Novum Testament Latine et Graece. Differt maxime saltatio syllabarum Graecarum itinere de itinere facto Latinarum.