“The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.” PainSufferingCompassionOvercomingTragedyHeroismHellenismMahayana Book:The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers Source: The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers