the human scale

'though Sophocles blames Fates for everything
Euripides lays all of it on Man
the meanest servant and the proudest king
must lay and execute his own life-plan
the Golden Age of yore provides his themes
but all the drama's on the human scale
there's no heroic aura to his schemes
and not much room for gods to shape his tale
a humanist before we had the word
for whom the action all comes from within
unint'rested in what he deems absurd
to blame a deity for mortal's sin
a treasure from the Periclean age
explored the human psyche on the stage