…It might seem anomalous , although readily understandable in the light of what we have said before, that the Greeks, the very people who created drama in its most perfect form, applied the word ‘play’ neither to the drama itself nor its performance. But the fact that the Greeks lacked a word covering the whole range of play easily accounts for this gap in their terminology. Hellenic society was so profoundly imbued with the play-spirit that this spirit never struck the Greeks as a special thing on its own.