Deep Water calamity exposes our faith in the sea

August 18, 2010
By Kimberley C. Patton
Washington Post

“The sea can wash away all evils.” The ancient Greek playwright Euripides gave these words to the exiled priestess Iphigenia, indentured to the goddess Artemis in a strange land. Can seawater ritually clean her refugee brother Orestes, even of the blood-stain of matricide? Her answer to King Thoas is unequivocal. There is nothing the sea cannot purify.