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“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could not have…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the political realm,…

— Hannah Arendt

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that…

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life…

— Robert Kennedy

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but…

— Anonymous

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

— Karl Marx

“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from the moment…

— J.K. Franko

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton