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grbs-4881	Mejer, Jorgen	Henrik Ibsen and the Revival of Euripides	1986	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3996	129	48	5 See Meyer 443-45 for the severe personal toll exacted for her financial dealings and the general knowledge that Ibsen had used her as a model for Nora. MEJER, JØRGEN, Henrik Ibsen and the Revival of Euripides , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 27:4 (1986:Winter) p.399 J0RGEN MEJER 401 meant to be an illustration of Darwinian principles explains the char­ acter of Dr Rank: his father's dissolute life was the cause of Rank's disease, and the latter's disintegration and death is intended as an illustration of hereditary defect. MEJER, JØRGEN, Henrik Ibsen and the Revival of Euripides , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 27:4 (1986:Winter) p.399 402 HENRIK IBSEN AND EURIPIDES stated that with respect to making tragic characters more like ordinary human beings, Euripides was related to Aeschylus and Sophocles as Ibsen is to Goethe and Schiller.lO In a 1904 review P. Wendland re­ peated this juxtaposition, asserting that anyone influenced by Ibsen and Tolstoy would understand Euripides better than many old-fash­ ioned philologists equipped with all the tools of erudition.ll In both cases the point is that knowledge of modern drama will make it easier to understand the value of Euripidean tragedy in comparison to that of Aeschylus and Sophocles, so idealized by the earlier nineteenth century.	cache/grbs-4881.pdf	txt/grbs-4881.txt