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LITERATURE OE ANCIENT GREECE

dramatic craft, subtlety, sympathy, courage, imagination; he saw too deep into the world and took things too rebelliously to produce calm and successful poetry. Yet many will feel as Philêmon did: "If I were certain that the dead had consciousness, I would hang myself to see Euripides."