The Classic Greek Spirit, 1981
by: Roger Weir
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The Classic Greek Spirit
11 of 12 presentations availableThursdays, Oct 1, 1981 to Dec 17, 1981
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
audio part 1
audio part 2
- Homer: Odyssey @ Oct 08
The Eternal Return, the Mythic Journey, and Athena as Guiding Star play audio
- Orpheus and Mystery Religions @ Oct 15
Greek Mystery Religions, Open Air Temples, Cave Oracles, and Orphic Hymnos play audio
- Aeschylus and Pindar @ Oct 29
Origins of Tragedy as Form. The Oresteia, Prometheus, and Pythian Poems play audio
- Sophocles and Euripides @ Nov 05
Completed Balance in the Theban Trilogy and Risked Personas in the Mask Form play audio
- Socrates and Plato @ Nov 12
The Interior Individual. Dialogue as a Form. The Phaedo, and the Timaeus play audio
- Aristotle and Aristophanes @ Nov 19
Philosophy and Formal Reality. Old Comedy as a Spiritual Art play audio
- Menander @ Nov 26
The Middle Greek Comedy
no audio available - Herodotus and Thucydides @ Dec 03
History and Its Forms. The Peloponnesian War as the Great-Power Archetype audio part 1
audio part 2
- Alexander and Plutarch @ Dec 10
The World Conqueror and His "Oikoumene." The Isis and Osiris, and the Parallel Lives audio part 1
audio part 2
- Plotinus @ Dec 17
The Completion of the Classic Greek Spirit to Its Transcendence from Formal Realism play audio