Greek Philosophy of the Sylvan God

Greek knew and felt the terror of existence. That he might endure this terror at all. He had to interpose between himself and life. And so selenus, quite fittingly, is a pessimist about life. A so further down in another paragraph, nitho says, it is as if the olympian magic mountain had opened before us and revealed its roots to us. In short, that entire philosophy of the sylvan god, with its mythical exemplars, which caused th downfall of the melancholy etruscans.