How to Read a Greek Play

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An excerpt from The Greeks: Drama and Lyric, part of the Old Western Culture video course series by Roman Roads Press.

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WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE PLAYS ON YOU TUBE?

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If we always only choose to care for the lie, and never care for the truth we will always only be good at lying and become better liars, and we will never be good or become better truthful people. If naively we ask why cannot everything be good, and why should anything be evil, then the impossibility of such a situation and the wrongfulness of such thinking becomes clearly apparent to us. But the majority of us only truly care for wealth, and never truly care for virtue or for any other loftier ideal or a higher principle/precept, or a greater purpose or a grander design, although for money's sake we will pretend to be anybody and pretend to do anything and wear any garb, including that of a sportsman, or that of a commentator or maybe even both, but we will never be true sportsmen or true commentators in real life. All of life itself has become a stage or a play or a show and an illusion to us where for the time being everyone of us just play's a part but is never really any of those characters that we are pretending to be playing for the time being. We are only acting as scientists but are never really true scientists, perhaps have never desired or never hoped to truly be one, but as life would have it we only get better at what we do, in other words we are only becoming better showmen and better actors and better con men, never truly better at being anything else. If we choose to value wealth over virtue and to value money over morals, we will part company from virtue and from morals the first time someone dangles a bit of money in front of us. Life always tests our true character and our true mettle, and unfortunately all of us have been found wanting, and have come up short with a negative balance. But I say if we choose to part company from the truth and choose to be disloyal to it and choose to forsake it or choose to not believe in it or choose to betray it, at every step of the way and at every turn or at every hurdle, or at every hint of a trouble or at a bit of a problem, or at a sign of danger then the truth does not have to or at the very least should not have to be loyal to us and be faithful to us or even care for us either, unless we truly and demonstrably change in our ways, by genuinely trying heart and soul to be truthful. The feeling and the respect should always only be mutual in any relationship, even in a make believe temporary one. Besides no one likes dishonesty and disloyalty from their partners in any relationship anyway. One of the challenges of growing up is being able to shoulder the burden of behaving responsibly.

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