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# Virginia Woolf in the essay “On Not Knowing Greek” on the fate of Greek poets
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- Published: 2019-10-30T11:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:06:45.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books

"Fate was kind to the Greeks. She preserved them from vulgarity. Euripides was eaten by dogs; Aeschylus was killed by a stone; Sappho threw herself from a rock. We know no more of them than that. We have their poetry, and that is all," wrote Virginia Woolf in her essay "On Not Knowing Greek".