The Boston Globe, January 16th, 1997
Archeologists have discovered a cave on the Greek island of Salamis where they think Euripides may have written some of his plays. Call it the 5th century BC version of the den -- that sacrosanct space where a person retreats from the world to think. Apparently the creator of timeless Greek tragedies needed a room of his own as much as those of us living in 1997. Historians have long known that the Greek playwright sought solitude in a cave -- something his contemporaries considered eccentric and antisocial. But no one was sure which grotto was his until archeologist Yannos Lolos and a team of...
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