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Spengler’s thesis: the Greek is Apollonian; hence it loves, embraces the finite.4
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Nietzsche, Rohde and Burckhardt’s theses: the Greeks revel in the Faustian, the Dionysian 3⁄4 the infinite.5
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Graf, in Medea, the Enchantress from Afar: Remarks on a Well-Known Myth,6 traces Medea’s mythical and historical personae, chronologically and geographically, to conclude that Medea’s foreignness and cultic-ritual initiation affinities are the most constant elements in her multi-narrations.
4J.Ferrater Mora. Catedra de Filosofía. Diccionario de Filosofía. España. 1999. ‘El Infinito’. p.1823.
5J.Ferrater Mora. Catedra de Filosofía. Diccionario de Filosofía. España. 1999. ‘El Infinito.’ p.1823.
6Graf, Fritz. “Medea, the Enchantress from Afar: Remarks on a Well-Known Myth”, Ch. 1 in J. Clauss and S.I. Johnston (eds.), Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art, Princeton 1997: 21-43.
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