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Quotation from The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
“There may be many shapes of mystery, And many things God makes to be, Past hope or fear”
The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, closing chorus, trans. Gilbert Murray (1902)
The closing chorus frames the catastrophe as an outcome beyond ordinary human expectation.
Citation: "There may be many shapes of mystery, And many things God makes to be, Past hope or fear" — Euripides, The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, closing chorus, trans. Gilbert Murray (1902). (id the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q2)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
