The Classic Greek Spirit, 1981
by Roger Weir old version
This is the second part of a one-year-long series of lectures on the spiritual classics of the Greeks, the Orient (in two parts), and the United States.
Homer: Iliad
Oct 01
Wrath as a Spiritual Demons and Its Cure by Equilibrium of Form
Part 1Part 2Homer: Odyssey
Oct 08
The Eternal Return, the Mythic Journey, and Athena as Guiding Star
Part 1Orpheus and Mystery Religions
Oct 15
Greek Mystery Religions, Open Air Temples, Cave Oracles, and Orphic Hymnos
Part 1Pythagoras
Oct 22
Tetractys, Cosmology, Geometric Vision, and Utopian Communities
Part 1Aeschylus and Pindar
Oct 29
Origins of Tragedy as Form. The Oresteia, Prometheus, and Pythian Poems
Part 1Sophocles and Euripides
Nov 05
Completed Balance in the Theban Trilogy and Risked Personas in the Mask Form
Part 1Socrates and Plato
Nov 12
The Interior Individual. Dialogue as a Form. The Phaedo, and the Timaeus
Part 1Aristotle and Aristophanes
Nov 19
Philosophy and Formal Reality. Old Comedy as a Spiritual Art
Part 1Herodotus and Thucydides
Dec 03
History and Its Forms. The Peloponnesian War as the Great-Power Archetype
Part 1Part 2Alexander and Plutarch
Dec 10
The World Conqueror and His "Oikoumene." The Isis and Osiris, and the Parallel Lives
Part 1Part 2Plotinus
Dec 17
The Completion of the Classic Greek Spirit to Its Transcendence from Formal Realism
Part 1