Status Updates From 希腊的生活 (文明的故事, #2)

"...it would be foolish to judge Euripides chiefly as a playwright; his ruling interest is...philosophical inquiry & political reform. He is the son of the Sophists, the poet of the Enlightenment, the representative of the radical younger generation that laughed at the old myths, flirted with socialism, & called for a new social order in which there should be less exploitation of man by man..." (413).

"...Aeschylus cleared the way & set the forms for Greek drama with his harsh verse & stern philosophy, Sophocles fashioned the art with measured music & placid wisdom, & Euripides completed the development in works of passionate feeling & turbulent doubt. Aeschylus was a preacher of almost Hebraic intensity; Sophocles was a 'classic' artist clinging to a broken faith; Euripides was a romantic poet..." (401).