"The Greeks regarded what we call "public" experience as part of human experience. That's what a man was: he was a member of his city. And if he was a poet he was a poet who was a member of his city. This is what gives such ground and scope and humanity to Greek poetry at its greatest. The Greek poets knew what a city was to them--what a war was, a people. They knew."
-Archibald MacLeish
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