'They tell me this is me light of Asia, me light of Palestine, of Persia, of Egypt; and I realise me unity of history that for thousands of years past shapes our inner destiny. Troy--me Ten Thousand under Xenophon--Cleopatra--Theodora of Byzantium, too--all these adventures become, through the chiliads, as intelligible and united as the parts of a single melody.'
[Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 'Greece', in The Criterion II 5, October 1923, p.96]
In his introduction to Dante's ...