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But even this brain disturbance was a problem⁠—“Come, how is it even possible? How could it have really got in brains like ours, the brains of men of aristocratic ancestry, of men of fortune, of men of good natural endowments, of men of the best society, of men of nobility and virtue?” This was the question that for century on century the aristocratic Greek put to himself when confronted with every (to him incomprehensible) outrage and sacrilege with which one of his peers had polluted himself. “It must be that a god had infatuated him,” he would say at last, nodding his head.⁠—This solution is typical of the Greeks,⁠ ⁠… accordingly the gods in those times subserved the functions of justifying man to a certain extent even in evil⁠—in those days they took upon themselves not the punishment, but, what is more noble, the guilt.