Word: iconoclast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...