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Euripides
“Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it’s not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You’re bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This “new invented daimon” you laugh at — take my word for it — he’s not one to laugh at. He’s going to be big.”
Euripides, Bakkhai

Euripides
“the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche’s interior design.”
Euripides, Bakkhai

Euripides
“There’s a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it’s just sex. I’ve put most of them in jail.”
Euripides, Bakkhai

Euripides
“Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you’re as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn’t sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let’s walk.”
Euripides, Bakkhai

“A gambit that was unusual and highly charged at one time (say, the diminished seventh at the start of the nineteenth century) can come to seem ordinary and ineffective after repeated use (say, the diminished seventh by the end of the nineteenth century).”
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

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