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the chorus plays a much larger part in Aeschylus than in his successors. And third, and partly as a result of that fact, individual psychology is recessive in the Oresteia, ‘ myth’ taking precedence. It is in the contrast between ‘myth’ and ‘psychology’, though Nietzsche doesn’t spell it out quite like that, that he sees the crucial difference between genuine tragedy and its counterfeit.
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
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