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An unrehearsed, dramatic read-through of the text we'll be discussing on ep. 117, a Greek tragedy written around 441 BCE, telling the myth of the cursed line of Oedipus, mother-f*#king king of Thebes. Featuring Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan, plus special guest starts Lucy Lawless as Antigone, Paul Provenza as Creon, Alice Sinclair as Ismene, and John Castro as Haimon.
After the performance, the cast discusses the conventions of Greek tragedy, our selected translation, and a little about why philosophers should be interested in this. Read more about the topic and get the text to read along.
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End song: "Antigone (Choragos Speaks)" by Mark Lint. Read about it.
Antigone image by Genevieve Arnold.
Erik Weissengruber says
June 12, 2015 at 5:06 pmFor anyone looking for the dialectics of … well … everything in this play (ethics, history, religion) I complied a quickly made selection of relevant Hegel passages. Thank you to Mark Roche for his paper that surveys the topic. Sorry there are no formal citations. It’s a grab bag of texts from archive.org and marxists.org. Here’s my doc:
http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/article/download/222/229
Erik Weissengruber says
June 12, 2015 at 5:07 pmOops. Here is Roche’s doc: http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/article/download/222/229
Here is MY doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1prjPCzuwVpj_iVb78CKpezGC1mvhvGpV7q6MLcMPLiQ/edit?usp=sharing
or:
http://bit.ly/1Qu1LlS