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“In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.”

— Tana French

The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask are always…

— Tony Harrison

“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity. Nowadays we have enough terror and pity…

— Christopher Durang

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

— Curt Flood

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

— Joseph Boyden

“...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

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

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

— Karl Marx

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

— Arca

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and…

— Eva Mendes