Episode 61: Euripides
Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Athenian tragedian Euripides and two of his plays. Euripides is the "bad boy" among Greek playwrights, and we talk a bit about his strange biography before digging into his horrendous pictures of gods. Among the texts, writers, and ideas we engage are comedians as biographers, deus ex machina, gods as allegories, Platonic and Aristotelian readings of tragedies, and Melville.
The Christian Humanist Podcast · Michial Farmer
October 18, 20111h 17m
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Show Notes
Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Athenian tragedian Euripides and two of his plays. Euripides is the "bad boy" among Greek playwrights, and we talk a bit about his strange biography before digging into his horrendous pictures of gods. Among the texts, writers, and ideas we engage are comedians as biographers, deus ex machina, gods as allegories, Platonic and Aristotelian readings of tragedies, and Melville.