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Athenian Democracy

Jiang reads Trojan Women as a direct response to Athens's attack on Melos, confronting Athenians with the suffering their empire inflicted on women and children.

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Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War,..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"Okay? And been forced to be the mistress or concubine of the Greek, uh, heroes like Odysseus. Okay? Then you have Andromache. Andromache um,..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"And so, Hecuba must portionally bury the dead child. Okay? And so, it is a play that made everyone in Athens weep. What makes..."

The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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"...the death of his mentor, Socrates. And so it was the Athenian democracy who killed his mentor. So he passionately hates democracy, okay? Well,..."

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