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Camus’s longstanding engagement with classical mythology is well-known, but Luke Richardson in this chapter contends that depiction of the ancient Greeks as a whole ultimately becomes its own kind of myth for the French Algerian author, longing for a homeland, and torn between a colonial Algeria that was coming to an end, and a mainland France whose cold skies and Parisian boulevards he could never welcome as his patrie (see chapter 21). Moved by an impossible nostalgia, Camus imagines his own nation, indeed his own “Hellenic cure” in the plays of Aeschylus or Sophocles, Richardson claims – and to a markedly lesser extent in the philosophies of the Presocratics and Plato.