Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202
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+John Green talks Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex on the most recent episode
of CrashCourse Literature.
Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202
omg I didn’t know you wrote fault in our stars!!!! I’ve read it and I’m
subscribed to all your channels and I’ve never really connected it =( I’m
such a bad fan
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>pewdiepie
Is all he has to say about Antigone that she kills herself? Not her
bravery and cunning and sisterly love? Nothing?
A man who disagrees with Aristotle suffers from the Dunning-Krugger effect.
Sadly, with Disney nullifying the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Chewbacca
never did fulfill his oath in this ultimate way.
Sorry if that was mentioned before, I did not read all of the ~1000
comments. ;)
We read Antigone in class the other day, I quite enjoyed it.
Oedipus was the first motherfucker
Damn you Crash Course!!!!
That’s right, I’m reading about Oedipus at the moment…..READING!!!
Damn you Crash Course!!!!
I can’t believe I didn’t know you wrote the Fault in Our Stars
I love Crash Course and I agree that most ideas of Aristotle have since
been overcome, but your comments, dear John, kind of make a mockery out of
the fact that at some point in the past he was considered to be probably
the most influential intellectual ever, having provided, in many cases, the
first ideas we had about many subjects, even though we have since moved on.
That’s like saying Isaac Newton was an idiot because physicists have since
revised some of his ideas. Being one of the first ones to have at least
SOME idea about what’s going on counts for something. I mean, for crying
out loud, people in the centuries after his death only referred to
Aristotle as “the Philosopher”, as if there wasn’t any other guy worth
paying attention to. Oh, and let’s not forget that Aristotle invented(!)
formal logic and still remains highly influential in the field of ethics,
e.g. in terms of his thoughts on virtue, friendship and balance.
So there it is kids, show some respect to dear old Aristotle.
The book of Job works out to be a beautiful read, despite Mr. Green’s
criticism (between 5:00 and 7:00)
One thing Mr Green forgot to mention is that if you weren’t a male citizen
and you were caught attending a play you would be tortured to death in
public.
Athenian society was a great historical culture. It laid the basis for many
of the ideas we still pursue, but it was part of the ancient world, which
wasn’t just another country but a truly different world and completely
alien to our modern understanding. It was the beginning of our attempts to
understand the world around us but, like all human beginnings, it was
steeped in ignorance and delusion.
theaters were open to both women and slaves mr historian. Its not the
olympics.
Why do you like to say he was wrong about everything? He created scien ce
as we know it. Are you actually saying he was wrong with the scientific
method?
he wrote the fault in our stars!?!? And he’s on Crash Course?! who is this
guy?!
wait, did you say you wrote the book “the fault in our stars”? …the book
that sappy movie was based off of?
hey john, can you do a crash course over the iliad? it could go along with
the odysessy and your greek literature section.
+John Green From whence come the idioms and implications surrounding the
disparagement: “pretentious”? Is it accurate to opine that pretense once
carried ignominy not for the fact of pretending but for the gall of what
was pretended? Is it come of a common source to this and developed so to
make /what/ one is pretending to vestigial? Is the contemporary offense
based on the notion of someone pretending they’re better than you, smarter
than you, richer than you, or just as? Where’s the foul, why’s’it, and
where’d it come from?
This is deeper than we went at school in classic culture. What we learnt is
that it is about truth coming to light and that knowing thyself is more
important than ignorance, that it is a subtle criticism on monarchy, about
seeing (litterally and figuratively) and that apollo the god of light makes
the blind teiresias see as well as Oidipous, but both in different ways,
and about the breaking of godly laws (don’t kill your father, don’t sleep
with your mother). Very nice addition to those theories.
His fatal flaw is hubris.
So by the definition of hamartia here has roots similar to where we get the
modern word for sin in religion, ie to miss the mark.
Don’t forget Teireseus also appeared in the Odyssey.
I wish more people knew about hamartia being an ERROR, not a FATAL FLAW.
The latter implies a kind of predestination, whereas the former is more
about consequences of a choice (an erroneous one). Big difference there, I
think.
We were going over the elements of tragedy in drama and someone tried to
convince the class that tfios is a tragedy. Yeah, someone dies, but neither
main character is powerful and the death of one is not really any person’s
fault. It’s more of a comedy with a moral if we go by classic definitions.