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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord{{Article buttons|override=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord|DeepArea=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord}}
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Chapter 5 of Book 8 Aristotle emphasized that the sort of music that is only “for our amusement and refreshment, like taking a nap or having a drink,” is not of serious importance, although it may be “pleasant and help us forget our worries, as Euripides says” (Bacchae[1] 381).

Can someone help identify the Euripides quotation with an original source better than ours? We found and cited this one from here but there may be something better/more definitive; the quotations are pretty different.

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  1. ↑ Euripides, Bacchae, line 381, from The Tragedies of Euripides, translated by T.A. Buckley, Bacchae (London: 1850).