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I really recommend the plays by Euripides or Aeschylus. They deal with a lot of the essential problems we struggle with even today. In khoros.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
Each has his own tastes, Gods and men alike.
(Euripides–Hippolytus 104, from Erasmus)
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)
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It would make no sense to dismiss Oedipus or Medea, Antigone and Electra with anything approximating the catch-all, infinitely damning modern term for those who do not make it: losers. These great fictional characters belonged to a far nobler, more dignified and more humane category which tragedy helped to map: that of the tragic failure, the perso
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Mercy triumphs over judgment.