... emotion is alien from the genius of the religious and soldier-like Aeschylus; Sophocles creates characters to act on one another, and endows them with qualities accordingly; Euripides opens a new world to art and gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion, both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed In ... character of Jason as the ideal model of the Apollonian man. Jason was said to have been beyond the standards by which normal men were measured; not only was he brave, intelligent & rational but also honorable, mora...

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