A Bibliophile's Odyssey: Reading The Great Books

A Bibliophile's Odyssey: Reading The Great Books

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Great Books Ep 68. Aeschylus - Eumenides. Paternal Shadows: Devotion, Duty or Rebellion?
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Great Books Ep 68. Aeschylus - Eumenides. Paternal Shadows: Devotion, Duty or Rebellion?

The father-son relationship is a complex one. Literature depicts it in different ways, from matching immense expectations to the fight against tyranny.

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Great Books Ep 68. Aeschylus - Eumenides. Paternal Shadows: Devotion, Duty or Rebellion?
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“Zeus, thou pretendest, holds a father’s life

Precious exceedingly; and yet Himself

Cast his own Father Cronos into chains!

Why, is not this confounding contraries?”

~ ‘Eumenides’ by Aeschylus (G. M. Cookson translation. p87. line 643)

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The play begins at Delphi, the temple of Apollo, where a prophetess is …

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