Marinero marinero dime si es verdad que sabes porque distinguir no puedo si en el fondo de los mares hay otro color más negro que el color de mis pesares ~ Heart-rending, but pathei-mathos. Excellent presentation, take care.
Im deeply happy I stumbled onto this channel or perhaps your channel found me. Anyways your videos are pure greatness, keep up the fantastic work. Though I am quite curious where u got the information that Raymundo Pérez y Soto is still alive. His wiki says he sadly died in 1991.
Thank you, and thanks for the question. We got it from Wikipedia - unfortunately - and it's most probably wrong on second notice. Still, when we made the video it wrote the age that we quoted. Apologies for that.
You have the ability to make the simplest things so interesting. Amazing gift. Τιμή στο άπειρον νερό που έχει χυθεί στην προσπάθεια να διώξουμε τα τζιτζικια καταβρέχοντάς τα! 😅
@@AncientGreeceRevisited because I think he is underrated today but his influence for the roman leadership was immense. Since I am in America, I can see that his philosophy has shaped the country as well. You find his books in every bookstore. I did not know about him actually before I moved here three years ago. In addition The stoics had a huge influence on christianity. And in Epictetus you will find Jesus with a lot of parallels in his speech. It is also read in the american military. Plus the teachings from epictetus changed my life. Just the fact that he was initially a slave and rose up to teach about freedom is such. a powerful story…
@@ntsopoul You are right on all these points, however, we are actually about the exact opposite to that. We believe, in other words, that something unique was lost during those late Hellenistic and early Roman years, something distinctly Greek, that gave birth to the Greek Theater. You cannot have Tragedy while being stoic. There was something related to the decadence of Greece that gave birth to this movement. We are trying to dig deeper, into the roots of our culture, which starts from Homer and ends... well... perhaps it ends even before Epictetus was born!
@@AncientGreeceRevisited It is well-known that stoicism is often misunderstood and labeled as a philosophy trying to conceal human emotions. This is very wrong. Study of the stoics will tell you that they very well welcomed emotions (for things under their control). Seneca a stoic was a playwright. Epictetus might not fall in the historical era that you mentioned, however he is a torchbearer of the greek platonic philosophy into the later periods reaching Boethius. I think his philosophy is greatly lost in europe, especially in Greece (and Germany, where I have lived).
@@ntsopoul You are right, the Stoics did play an important role in Roman philosophy and early Christianity. Yet, one cannot imagine a Stoic writing a Tragedy! Why? What happened in Greece that destroyed the tragic worldview? That is what we are actually trying to find out..
