“... On the one hand, we have Nietzsche and his epigoni, Cornford, Jane Harrison, Gilbert Murray, E.R. Dodds, A.W.H. Adkins telling us as a matter of scholarship that the ancient world in general and ancient tragedy in particular were permeated by religion, and on the other hand we have Aristotle. The prime peculiarity for 20th-century readers (though not for any ...”

“... of useful prior information, and probably did some reading as well, in such authorities as E.R. Dodds’s The Greeks and the Irrational and very likely in other learned sources. He would hardly need to take down his Bible and freshen his acquaintance with Acts, here his most surprising, most decisive source. Whatever scholars may dig up (and scholars have ...”