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“Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.”

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Book:Euripidis Medea

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Euripidis Medea

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Euripides

Euripides, a renowned Greek tragic playwright, is one of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. His life and achievements are not well-documented. more

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Book:Attack of the Black Rectangles

Source: Attack of the Black Rectangles

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Book:A Happy Ghost

Source: A Happy Ghost

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