Great Books Ep 58. Aeschylus - The Seven Against Thebes. Part 1. Numbers, Dreams, and Superstitions: What Makes Us Feel Special?
Our yearning to recognize special numbers in myriads of situations makes us feel special and unique. Numbers seem to have a mystical power over everything that humans seek to understand.
Know then, Seven Men — mettlesome Captains all - Spilling bulls' blood in shield with black hide bound — Their unctuous hands dipped in that gory chrism - Have taken a great oath — unutterable By Enyo and Phobos that drinketh blood, To raze these walls from battlement to base And sack the town of Cadmus, or e…
