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  1. Racine's Phaedra adapts the action of Euripides' Hippolytus. See Euripides' Medea, covered in "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (see pages 695–725 in volume A).
  2. Pope's An Essay on Man considers humanity in relation to the universe, an enterprise of ambition that is comparable to Milton's Paradise Lost, covered in "The Renaissance in Europe" (see pages 3001–3060 in volume C).
 
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