The Meaning of Greek Drama: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

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In this lecture, we explore the origin, meaning, and evolution of Greek drama by looking at the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Using the humanistic framework of Giambattista Vico, we begin to understand Greek drama and poetry as the beginning of intellectual wrestling with the nature and destiny of the cosmos, man, and the purpose of human existence.

0:00-24:11 - Aeschylus
24:11-54:31 - Sophocles
54:31-1:19:42 - Euripides
1:19:42-1:27:12 - Aristophanes & Plato
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a political philosopher, literary critic, and classicist. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, politics, 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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Actually the great art form of opera was the result of experimentation with Greek drama during the Renaissance in Florence. A lot of the ancient Greek plays were rediscovered in this period -specifically in Florence, Italy where in the sixteenth century a group of humanist enthusiasts that included the father of the great scientist Galileo attempt to perform Greek plays but were not sure how to do it -they noticed that there was a chorus so concluded the plays were sung so they invented recitative - a type of hybrid between talking and singing that became standard in operatic performance. Initially it was merely an art form for the dedicated few but when it got to Venice especially with the great composer Monteverdi it became a popular art form with insertion of things like arias, choruses and comic interludes. The first live opera I saw and I was totally overwhelmed by the beauty of it was "Orfeo ed Euridice" by the Austrian master Christoph Willibald Gluck and the story was taken straight from Euripides. Gluck also set Euripides' "Iphigenia in Tauris" to music as well. Philosopher Rousseau, when he went to a performance of Gluck's Orfeo in Paris exclaimed that the music was so beautiful that no more music need ever be written.

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