A very informative lecture about a very interesting subject. And what a great professor! Would love to be in this class in person. Thank you for this post & All the best from Vienna!
The long-haired professor deserves an accolade or two for his sincerity and assiduity though he makes a whole meal of his warning against plagiarism. His lecture is strikingly singular, lucid, and disarmingly interactive. How much does he directly and indirectly owe to John Gassner, George Steiner, and numerous other scholars who have written on drama ? Logos, ethos. pathos. mythos, deus ex machina, anagnorisis, oikos, catharsis etc are literary terms without which you cannot discuss Medea or any other Greek play. The professor demonstrates his erudition and exemplary pedagogy by deploying these terms appropriately to facilitate appreciation of the text. It ain't no plagiarism because it does not involve blatant theft or cognitive parasitism. Thank you Michael Moir for the pains. Do tell us the name of the prof and the college or university.
Yeah ultimately it's the children that were the victims. Why was kiling them okay and justified?? Because neither Medea nor Jason suffer because their lives are not taken away. She rose up in her chariots, "Flanked by the her sons' dead bodies" does that sound like a victory? Medea suffers no consequence nor does it ever head her conscious because if she really cared, she would've destroyed or kiled Jason and not her own children. There's no sympathy for her. No matter what happened to her. There is no sympathy for someone who kiled her own children just to spite her husband. A monstrous and cowardly move.
A very informative lecture about a very interesting subject. And what a great professor! Would love to be in this class in person. Thank you for this post & All the best from Vienna!
The long-haired professor deserves an accolade or two for his sincerity and assiduity though he makes a whole meal of his warning against plagiarism. His lecture is strikingly singular, lucid, and disarmingly interactive. How much does he directly and indirectly owe to John Gassner, George Steiner, and numerous other scholars who have written on drama ?
Logos, ethos. pathos. mythos, deus ex machina, anagnorisis, oikos, catharsis etc are literary terms without which you cannot discuss Medea or any other Greek play. The professor demonstrates his erudition and exemplary pedagogy by deploying these terms appropriately to facilitate appreciation of the text. It ain't no plagiarism because it does not involve blatant theft or cognitive parasitism.
Thank you Michael Moir for the pains. Do tell us the name of the prof and the college or university.
Medea starts at 9:22
*Thank* you.
Yeah ultimately it's the children that were the victims. Why was kiling them okay and justified?? Because neither Medea nor Jason suffer because their lives are not taken away. She rose up in her chariots, "Flanked by the her sons' dead bodies" does that sound like a victory? Medea suffers no consequence nor does it ever head her conscious because if she really cared, she would've destroyed or kiled Jason and not her own children. There's no sympathy for her. No matter what happened to her. There is no sympathy for someone who kiled her own children just to spite her husband. A monstrous and cowardly move.