… escape from their threatened warren and establish a new home has become a classic of xenofiction, a subgenre of science fiction encompassing stories set among species or cultures dramatically different from humanity or human society.

The critic rather proves his point with a weird interpretation about an unrequiting lady turning the poet into ashes […]

Realism had its vogue in Greece when Euripedes dared to set upon the stage both men and women as they really are; but after the time of Euripedes there is no more realism in Greek literature, though its influence is felt in other fields, as, for instance, in the field of art among the rhyparographers of Pergamum, with their floors so cleverly defaced with melon rinds and scraps of garbage artfully put in by brushes of an almost Flemish cunning.

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