Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College.
Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle’s On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard. More information about Davis is available at .
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Videos edited by Sebastian Soper and Alexandre Legrand.
Greek tragedy has been performed, read, imitated and interpreted for twenty-five hundred years. From the very beginning it was thought to be philosophically significant—somehow pointing to the truth of human life as a whole (the phrase the “tragedy of life“ first appears in Plato). As a literary form it
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Antigone The Tragic Heroine of Defiance and Duty
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OEDIPUS / ANTIGONE - Trailer
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Sophocles’ Antigone. Lecture 19 by Michael Davis
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Sophocles’ Antigone. Lecture 18 by Michael Davis
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Sophocles’ Antigone. Lecture 17 by Michael Davis
10 months ago 01:21:03 2
Antigone (full play)
11 months ago 00:57:09 1
Yannis Ritsos : Ismène lu par Isabelle Adjani (2017 - Festival d’Avignon / France Culture)
1 year ago 00:56:22 1
Sophocle (-495/-406), l’avant-garde tragique (Toute une vie / France Culture)
2 years ago 00:05:19 5
Bertrand Cantat - La Victoire de Thebes (Antigone)
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Bertrand Cantat - Heureux sont ceux qui du malheur ( Antigone de Sophocle)
3 years ago 00:09:39 1
ANOUILH 📚 Antigone (Lecture accompagnée)
3 years ago 01:36:09 1
Oedipus at Colonus (FULL Audiobook)
3 years ago 01:14:29 1
ANTIGONE - Full AudioBook - Sophocles
3 years ago 01:24:49 1
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) (FULL Audiobook)
3 years ago 00:05:10 1
HUMANKIND™ - Amongst The Mighty (FULL TRACK)
3 years ago 00:05:34 1
HUMANKIND™ - The Thyiads Circle (FULL TRACK)
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HUMANKIND™ Original Soundtrack - Main Title
4 years ago 00:02:20 1
Ode to Man from Antigone by Sophocles
4 years ago 00:06:47 7
Mikis Theodorakis: Opera “ANTIGONE“
5 years ago 00:01:53 22
Antigone, de Sophocle (extrait, télévision, 1974, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Jean Topart).
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Parlez vous Yup’ik?: amateur actors from Toksook Bay, Alaska,1985
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Yup’ik Antigone: Sophocles play in Yup’ik, English interpreter, 1984