Miniseries (1989)

Symposium, or the Received Ideas
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June 12, 1989 • 26m

In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around...Read more

Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece
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June 13, 1989 • 26m

Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of...Read more

Democracy, or the City of Dreams
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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

Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return
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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.

Amnesia, or the Sense of History
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June 16, 1989 • 26m

Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.

Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs
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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

Logomachy, or the Root of Words
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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

Music, or the Inner Space
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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

Cosmogony, or the Use of the World
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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

Mythology, or the Truth of Lies
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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

Misogyny, or Desire's Traps
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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

Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
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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

Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph
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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