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In a rhetorical construction found chiefly in archaic and classical Greek texts, a character links the attainment of a cherished desire to a desire to die. This idea may strike moderns as counter-intuitive, but as the article explains, it reflects an archaic Greek pattern of thought.
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This page is a summary of: The Extreme Wish in Greek Literature, Mnemosyne, February 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10111.
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