Miniseries
(1989)
Cast
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes
Symposium, or the Received Ideas 0.0
June 12, 1989
In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banqu…
Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece 8.0
June 13, 1989
Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the…
Democracy, or the City of Dreams 8.0
June 14, 1989
What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary politic…
Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return 0.0
June 15, 1989
Ithaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
Amnesia, or the Sense of History 8.0
June 16, 1989
Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shi…
Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs 0.0
June 19, 1989
The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. H…
Logomachy, or the Root of Words 0.0
June 20, 1989
All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the hu…
Music, or the Inner Space 0.0
June 21, 1989
A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal ques…
Cosmogony, or the Use of the World 0.0
June 22, 1989
This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acr…
Mythology, or the Truth of Lies 0.0
June 23, 1989
There are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche,…
Misogyny, or Desire's Traps 0.0
June 26, 1989
The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where het…
Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death 0.0
June 27, 1989
The great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the way …
Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph 0.0
June 28, 1989
Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in dai…