Wagner felt that the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus had been the finest (though still flawed) examples so far of total artistic synthesis, but that this synthesis had subsequently been corrupted by Euripides.
Wagner považoval grécke tragédie Aischylosa za najlepšie (hoci stále nedokonalé) príklady úplnej umeleckej syntézy, ale táto syntéza bola podľa neho čoskoro narušená Euripidesom.