Pagan man realises that he is better than his gods, but this realisation strikes him dumb, and it remains unarticulated ... There is here no question whatever of a restitution of the "moral order of the universe", but it is the attempt of moral man, still dumb, still inarticulate - as such he bears the name of hero - to raise himself up amid the agitation of that painful world. The paradox of the birth of the genius in moral speechlessness, moral infantility, constitutes the sublime element in tragedy.

--WALTER BENJAMIN, 'Trauerspiel and Tragedy'