There Is No Dignity Like The Dignity

Myths Are Early Science, The Result Of Men's First Trying To Explain What They Saw Around Them.

A Tendency To Exaggeration Was A Roman Trait.

None But A Poet Can Write A Tragedy. For Tragedy Is Nothing Less Than Pain Transmuted Into Exaltation By The Alchemy Of Poetry.

To Rejoice In Life, To Find The World Beautiful And Delightful To Live In, Was A Mark Of The Greek Spirit Which Distinguished It From All That Had Gone Before. It Is A Vital Distinction.

There Are Few Efforts More Conducive To Humility Than That Of The Translator Trying To Communicate An Incommunicable Beauty. Yet, Unless We Do Try, Something Unique And Never Surpassed Will Cease To Exist Except In The Libraries Of A Few Inquisitive Book Lovers.