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"Euripides...did not originate the decline of Athens; he did not demoralize the Athenians. He only hastened the decline...by the power and genius of his poetry he kept alive what might have perished, and hastened what might have tarried." (Page)

"He emptied the gymnasiums and taught the sailors to argue with their officers; he has encouraged all manner of wickedness and idleness and discontent" (Aeschylus)

"Euripides...did not originate the decline of Athens; he did not demoralize the Athenians. He only hastened the decline...by the power and genius of his poetry he kept alive what might have perished, and hastened what might have tarried." (Paige)

"He emptied the gymnasiums and taught the sailors to argue with their officers; he has encouraged all manner of wickedness and idleness and discontent" (Aeschylus)

"Euripides...did not originate the decline of Athens; he did not demoralize the Athenians. He only hastened the decline...by the power and genius of his poetry he kept alive what might have perished, and hastened what might have tarried." (Paige)

"Contrary to the seemingly ineradicable common prejudice, the Iliad does not glorify war."

"ἐλθὼν οὖν ὁ λύκος καὶ στὰς εἰς τὸ μέσον ὡς δημηγόρος ἔλεγεν πρὸς τὰ πρόβατα 'ἐὰν θέλετε μήτε πολεμεῖν μήτε πολεμεῖσθαι, δότε ἡμῖν τοὺς κύνας ἐκδότους, καὶ μετὰ πάσῃς ἀδείας κοιμᾶσθε, μηδεμίαν πολέμου ἔχοντες ὑποψίαν.' τὰ δὲ πρόβατα μωρὰ ὑπάρχοντα καὶ πεισθέντα παρέσχον τοὺς κύνας ἐκδότους. οἱ δὲ λύκοι διεσπάραξαν αὐτούς. μετὰ δὲ χρόνον ὑπεβάλοντο οἱ λύκοι τὰ πρόβατα." - Vita G 97

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