Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE)
“We show ourselves to be infatuated lovers
of this thing, whatever it is, that glistens here on earth,
for we have no experience of another life
and no revelation of what lies below the ground,
but we drift on a sea of myths.”
- From Euripides’ Hippolytus (approximately between lines 190-200), translated by James Morwood in Medea and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998, 2008).
