Introduction to Sophocles

In this lecture, we explore the Greek playwright Sophocles through the works Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Electra. In it we deconstruct the themes of tyranny, family, and love in the great tragedian.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).
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[shamil]

You're doing a great job. For beginners like us you're a gift

[hest]

Very interesting and helpful, thanks!

[NikolaiRogich]

God bless you for making this extraordinary public lecture.

[dmitriousali]

Thank you, I will be using some of your material in my lecture Zeus willing.

[sadegilbert]

About to start the plays. Just finished the one with Antigone and it was good

[hdhrdfsrkgh]

Isn't Sophocles the guy with a Togedemaru?

[richardlong]

There is a good deal of natural law type interpretations of morality to be found in some of the moral debates of the time, especially that which can be found within the sophists, what with many egoistic or almost amoralist sophists placing an antinomy between the natural moral law and the human moral law, to the disadvantage of the latter (ie by nature we are selfish, but conventional morality tells us not to be selfish, but natural law is the true authority on morality and so conventional morality must be ignored)