June 12, 1989 • 26m
In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around...Read more
June 13, 1989 • 26m
Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of...Read more
June 14, 1989 • 26m
What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems?...Read more
June 15, 1989 • 26m
Ithaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
June 16, 1989 • 26m
Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.
June 19, 1989 • 26m
The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. How do we ar...Read more
June 20, 1989 • 26m
All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the human animal ...Read more
June 21, 1989 • 26m
A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal quests - includ...Read more
June 22, 1989 • 26m
This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acropolis' Kor...Read more
June 23, 1989 • 26m
There are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche, their tran...Read more
June 26, 1989 • 26m
The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where heterosexualit...Read more
June 27, 1989 • 26m
The great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the way to a societ...Read more
June 28, 1989 • 26m
Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existenc...Read more