Excerpt from Madness in Greek Thought and Custom The effect upon the popular mind of Greece of so mysterious a phenomenon as madness, its bearing upon the relig

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Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged m