The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.Gilbert Murray
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
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