Channel Title: The Philosophy of Tragedy Channel Description: Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. <video> Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians. Lecture 22 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> The Philosophy of Tragedy: Conclusion by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. Lecture 15 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Hippolytus. Lecture 27 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians. Lecture 23 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Bacchae. Lecture 21 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Michael Davis speaks about his new book "Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides" Description: Professor Michael Davis and Alexandre Legrand discuss his new book Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. It will be published on November 1st 2023. You can purchase it directly from the source at St. Augustine Press and get 30% off until 2024 with the discount code ELECTRASDAVIS30. St. Augustine’s Press was founded in December 1996 with the mission of publishing outstanding scholarly works, principally in the fields of philosophy, theology, and cultural and intellectual history. https://www.staugustine.net/9781587312083/electras/ Book Description: Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, only one story is treated by all three––the tale of Electra. Davis endeavors to develop Benardete's understanding of the story's deeper meaning, as well as the connections that might be drawn between the three authors. He follows a thread that brings Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides closer together according to a powerful and shared theme––namely, that the female is the deeper (even if less easily accessible and articulated) of the pair of fundamental principles constituting human beings. Davis accomplishes much more than an exegetical bridge as he connects us with ancient memory and wisdom. "When we cannot resist the temptation to recoil morally from their terminology, we risk the tragedy of losing their profound thoughts about our humanity––their philosophical anthropology." Davis has remarkably made of a niche study a stunning source material for more universal questions. This is a book that is as timely as it is ageless. </video> <video> Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians. Lecture 24 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Sophocles' Antigone. Lecture 18 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Hippolytus. Lecture 26 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. Lecture 16 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Sophocles' Antigone. Lecture 19 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Sophocles' Antigone. Lecture 17 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Bacchae. Lecture 20 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video> <video> Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians. Lecture 25 by Michael Davis Description: Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College. Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at michaelpeterdavis.com. More philosophical content can be found at www.thinkinvisible.com. Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand. Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself. Contents: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Aeschylus's Agamemnon Lecture 3: Agamemnon Lecture 4: Aeschylus's Libation Bearers Lecture 5: Aeschylus's Eumenides Lecture 6: Eumenides Lecture 7: Eumenides Lecture 8: Eumenides Lecture 9: Eumenides Lecture 10: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 11: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 12: Oedipus Tyrannus Lecture 13: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 14: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 15: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 16: Oedipus at Colonus Lecture 17: Sophocles' Antigone Lecture 18: Antigone Lecture 19: Antigone Lecture 20: Euripides' Bacchae Lecture 21: Bacchae Lecture 22: Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 23: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 24: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 25: Iphigenia among the Taurians Lecture 26: Euripides' Hippolytus Lecture 27: Hippolytus Lecture 28: Conclusion Translations used: Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Hugh Lloyd-Jones trans. Sophocles I, Grene and Lattimore eds. Ten Plays by Euripides, Moses Hadas trans. Acknowledgements: For the content of these lectures Professor Davis is deeply indebted to the work of Seth Benardete (although, of course, Professor Davis alone is responsible for his use of that work) and particularly on the following: Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles Antigone “The Furies of Aeschylus” in The Argument of the Action “On Greek Tragedy,” in The Argument of the Action “Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus” in The Argument of the Action “Euripides’ Hippolytus” in The Argument of the Action “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: the Education of the Chorus,” in The Archaeology of the Soul </video>

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Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the "tragedy of life" first appears in Plato). As a literary form it is thought especially revealing philosophically by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to name only a few. Among others, Seneca, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley, O'Neill and Sartre wrote versions of Greek tragedies. And, of course, there is Freud. Greek tragedy examines the fundamental things in a fundamental way. Justice, family, guilt, law, autonomy, sexuality, political life, the divine—these are its issues. The lectures that follow treat three plays by each of the great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—with a view to understanding how they deal with these issues and with the question of the importance and nature of tragedy itself.

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