"Lucas Murrey shares with his subject, Holderlin, a vision of the Greeks as bringing something vitally important into our poor world, a vision of which few classical scholars are now capable." -Richard Seaford, author of Money and the Early Greek Mind and Dionysus. "Here triumphs a temperament guided by ancient religion and that excavates, in Holderlin's translations, the central god Dionysus of Greek tragedy." -Bernhard Boschenstein, author of "Frucht des Gewitters". Zu Holderlins Dionysos als Gott der Revolution and Paul Celan: Der Meridian. "Lucas Murrey takes the god of tragedy, Dionysus, finally serious as a manifestation of the ecstatic scream of liberation and visual strategies of dissolution: he pleasantly portrays Holderlin's idiosyncratic poetic sympathy." -Anton Bierl, author of Der Chor in der Alten Komodie. Ritual and Performativitat "Holderlin most surely deserved such a book." -Jean-Francois Kervegan, author of Que faire de Carl Schmitt? "...fascinating material..." -Noam Chomsky, author of Media Control and Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe.
