41.   The chant rises as though from a chorus in a Greek tragedy.

42.   The fall of the mighty was a central theme of classical Greek tragedy and medieval morality plays, and it became the spine of Elizabethan tragedy.

43.   The figure of Electra is a curious one in Greek tragedy.

44.   The Greek tragedies, those hoary tales of incest, murder and betrayal, were the soap operas of the ancient world.

45.   The fantasies of advertising, movies and television belong as much to our unconscious as do those Greek tragedies and German fairy tales that psychoanalysts dissected in such detail.

46.   The gods commented on the action in declarative, all-knowing proclamations, derived not from Aeschylus but from more recent studies of Greek tragedy.

47.   The Greek tragedies did, too.

48.   The most sustained, and most dangerous, bout of fighting for many years came about with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.

49.   The Piniella subplot is right out of Shakespeare or the Greek tragedies.

50.   They summon a type of anguished, sexualized rage found in Shakespeare, the ancient Greek tragedies and not many other places.