11:40 Is Creon's harshness inexplicable? It could be assumed that Creon is happy to use the events that have fortuitously elevated him to king to reinforce his image as defender of Thebes by allowing only Eteocles burial in the city. Remember though that Polynices should by agreement have been king, the two brothers alternating yearly, only for Eteocles to renege: hence the civil war. Eteocles can be seen as a tyrant and Polynices true king of democratic Thebes. This narrative does not suit Creon and is of little use to him: a just ruler would have allowed Polynices' burial yet there is no intimation that this concerns Creon.
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According to you, the author's 'Are we free before the law?' What would the answer be?
14:15 What a strange interpretation! Of course it describes the tension between state and individual! Entirely! Antigone is acting as an individual guided by personal principles and tradition. The context may be familial but the struggle is that of an individual.
Another way to tell bible stories woghout using names and brinjing un wanted guilt a d shame of people beliving they had aproval antijone did what is right
I would not discourage anyone from reading _Antigone_ but this lecture receives low marks. What an insulting lackluster analysis. Such a chaotic approach is ultimately offensive to one of the seminal early works for the entire Western tradition that followed. I am shell-shocked; there is such a large body of scholarship to draw from and Prof Davis stumbled horrifically... wow. I take no pleasure in this but a Professor did not show up at all and where he did show-up, he was ill-prepared from the very first questions that began the lecture concerning why it might have been culturally/religiously important to bury bodies in ancient Greece. Shocking. What's more the Athenians saw Thebes as the very anthesis to the order and resolution found in Athens; that probably would have been important to preface the analysis by as well. Unreal, that the students were not brought to even that awareness. Again, it is shocking that the Professor let some really fundamental grounding of any reading where the historical _Anitgone_ was performed go unmentioned, absolutely shocking. It is unreal that this lecture is even posted online. Sarah Lawerence College, this is mediocre at best. But what a mess yet I watched it nearly to the end hoping the Prof would rescue himself from the conceit. Nope. This was a total BS effort for any Professor. _Antigone_ deserves better.
you seem to be shockingly shock prone - perhaps some medication might help - as to prof Davis's analysis, well, apparently opinions vary for I have been loving it ever since I came across it.
Go ahead @@tomaszpilch7570 come all over Prof Davis every time you visit. The Prof indicates in the description, he didn't outline the lecture, someone else did. The reasoning you're looking for is _genetic fallacy_ I am last person to argue _Academic Freedom_ with. But _Antigone_ has one of largest bibliographies of scholarship and criticism behind it in the entire Western World. The pupil who prepared the lecture got hung-up in Heidegger's reading or something. It is a trash lecture. Professors enjoy the most liberty and sometimes it shows. Good luck to you.
11:40 Is Creon's harshness inexplicable? It could be assumed that Creon is happy to use the events that have fortuitously elevated him to king to reinforce his image as defender of Thebes by allowing only Eteocles burial in the city. Remember though that Polynices should by agreement have been king, the two brothers alternating yearly, only for Eteocles to renege: hence the civil war. Eteocles can be seen as a tyrant and Polynices true king of democratic Thebes. This narrative does not suit Creon and is of little use to him: a just ruler would have allowed Polynices' burial yet there is no intimation that this concerns Creon.
According to you, the author's 'Are we free before the law?'
What would the answer be?
@ neither man nor woman is free who obey a law.
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14:15 What a strange interpretation! Of course it describes the tension between state and individual! Entirely! Antigone is acting as an individual guided by personal principles and tradition. The context may be familial but the struggle is that of an individual.
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Δεινός!
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gratias tibi
Another way to tell bible stories woghout using names and brinjing un wanted guilt a d shame of people beliving they had aproval antijone did what is right
I would not discourage anyone from reading _Antigone_ but this lecture receives low marks.
What an insulting lackluster analysis. Such a chaotic approach is ultimately
offensive to one of the seminal early works for the entire Western tradition
that followed.
I am shell-shocked; there is such a large body of scholarship to draw from
and Prof Davis stumbled horrifically... wow.
I take no pleasure in this but a Professor did not show up at all and where
he did show-up, he was ill-prepared from the very first questions that began
the lecture concerning why it might have been culturally/religiously important
to bury bodies in ancient Greece. Shocking. What's more the Athenians saw
Thebes as the very anthesis to the order and resolution found in Athens; that probably
would have been important to preface the analysis by as well.
Unreal, that the students were not brought to even that awareness.
Again, it is shocking that the Professor let some really fundamental grounding of any reading
where the historical _Anitgone_ was performed go unmentioned, absolutely shocking.
It is unreal that this lecture is even posted online.
Sarah Lawerence College, this is mediocre at best.
But what a mess yet I watched it nearly to the end hoping
the Prof would rescue himself from the conceit. Nope.
This was a total BS effort for any Professor.
_Antigone_ deserves better.
you seem to be shockingly shock prone - perhaps some medication might help - as to prof Davis's analysis, well, apparently opinions vary for I have been loving it ever since I came across it.
Go ahead @@tomaszpilch7570 come all over Prof Davis every time you visit.
The Prof indicates in the description, he didn't outline the lecture,
someone else did.
The reasoning you're looking for is _genetic fallacy_
I am last person to argue _Academic Freedom_ with.
But _Antigone_ has one of largest bibliographies of
scholarship and criticism behind it in the entire Western
World. The pupil who prepared the lecture got hung-up
in Heidegger's reading or something. It is a trash lecture.
Professors enjoy the most liberty and sometimes it shows.
Good luck to you.