"The characters, with their attraction to the Classics, but as a source of intense experience rather than as a window to a higher truth, seemed to be playing a beautiful but dangerous game. Is it not the most dangerous game to seek the old gods while not believing in them? No good reader of Euripides will be surprised that entering into Bacchic rites leads to tragedy."

DarwinCatholic: The Secret History and Me
https://darwincatholic.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-secret-history-and-me.html?m=1

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