Clips from current programming including a PBS series on the impact of Greek culture on modern thought. Visit us at www.macmillanfilms.com to find out more
So, just couldn't help turning this superb rendition of a Greek play into a sordid political smear. Here we are, three years later. Are you enjoying the inflation, the unemployment, the general misery brought to you by Obama and his puppet Biden? Could you have ever imagined Harris being the nominee? Enjoy the suck.
Coming here from my TESOL class! What a great man , i wish i could meet with him . As a polygot who knows Turkish as Native , English , French and German , his words are making so much sense , every language creates a new person , a new part of you ! And you will understand it over the time , and its amazing .
Internationalizing the anti war message of Sparta vs. Athens to Persia vs. Greece. Directionally the same as the original. I notice that MacMilian Films also has an earlier staging with the Sparta vs. Athens - so they broadened the theme in this movie version that shows the locations hinted at in the original play.
Wonderful professor. I took several classes as an undergraduate doing the Classics/Ancient Greek track major with him. His father was a famous mathematician, Lipa Bers.
What a great man! Back around 1994, he taught a two-day course on TESOL for free (I think it was sponsored by the Actor's Work Program). It was a gift that I've cherished throughout the years. He taught with unbridled passion, humor, empathy, love and joy. If I recall correctly, at one point, he made a comment something like 2 + 2 > 4. He taught with such passion that if you added the factors, they were definitely more than the sum of its parts... I wish his "60 Minutes" clips were available.
@@krumbergify Everything is uncertain, even the use of words. So yes, even certainty is uncertain. Words don't have meanings apart from humans and other words. And those words only mean what they mean because that's how we are using the words in this historical context. They'll have no meaning in another historical context.
@@dharmadefender3932 So you are certain that certainty in uncertain? ;) Sounds like word-salad to me…. I consider myself a 19th century pragmatist so I get the point that some philosophical problems are really just caused by competing language definitions. However in practice I can almost always explain to you what I mean in day to day life in order to act out practical solutions in the physical world. That's good enough and "true enough" to me. As a Swede, if I go the a bar in China, look and listen carefully I can see when someone goes to the clerk, makes a "noise", gets a beer and pays for it. Although I don't understand the language I get what the words mean and what effect they have both in the relation between the clerk and the customer and the relation between the pint and the wallet. With practice I can even (with some error) imitate the words and nevertheless reproduce the same effect myself. Therefore words do relate to the real world although they vary within and across languages. If debate and coversation are not seen as a valid forms of conflict resolution and simply as a "language game" then we are left with the terrible options of physical separation or physical conflict whenever an issue needs to be settled. In my view that brings humanity back to the stone age. Even monotheism from 2000 years ago believed in true speech. So although the civilized method is flawed I find it superior for the lack of practical alternatives.
Clytemnestra is the most misunderstood character and her death made me sad. Agamemnon is the most selfish character so hail Clytemnestra for ridding the world of this curse. Paris is the most vain character yet his death made me sad. Cassandra is the most misfortunate character, her only fault was to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Menelaus is the most vengeful character but he didn't kill Helen did he? It proves the kind of guy this dude really is, he is praised and called worthy, but I, Saeed of India, have seen what he really is, only 4 millenia a little late: Failed from Huberus, O! Menelaus, is this the character of worthy honorable man? Proveth thou now, how thou took Helen on that fateful day in Sparta, by thy brother's wealth and none thy own, Thou took Helen, thou earneth her not, O! unworthy Menelaus, got a gift worthy for Paris had he been in Sparta and not in Troy, got a gift worthy for Hector had he been not married to Andromache, got a gift worthy for noble Achilles had he been rich and not poor, got a gift worthy for Rameses had he been not married to honorable Nefertari, got a gift worthy for courageous Ajax had he stood against thy brother, got a gift worthy for any other but thee, beauteous Helen, deserveth another she, Thy lust for honor had brave Trojans and Greeks alike sent to Hades, yet thy lust didn't die. Thy vengeance got Troy burned yet thy vengeance didn't die. Thy anger on Helen was great enough to kill so many yet thy Helen didn't die. A look at her Charis and thy Huberus rose to sky. Yet after the betrayal so great, thy niece Iphigenia died, thy Huberus didn't die. That innocent flower Iphigenia died, thy Huberus didn't die. Be cursed O! Menelaus but not be cursed more than thy brother, for no honorable man shall make a city die. Be cursed O! Menelaus but not be cursed more than thy brother, for no honorable man shall make a war to let people die. Be cursed O! Menelaus but not be cursed more than thy brother, for no honorable man shall make the civilia die.
