Great Books Ep 79. Euripides - Alcestis. Can Humans Defeat Death?

Heracles wrestles with Death and brings Alcestis back from the dead. The fascination of defeating death and living forever has been on human minds for long. Are humans going to get there any time?

Aug 31, 2024

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“Death is the common debt of man; no mortal really knows if he will live to see the morrow's light; for Fortune's issues are not in our ken, beyond the teacher's rule they lie, no art can master them.”

~ ‘Alcestis’ by Euripides (Edward P. Coleridge translation. GB5 - p. 244)

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King Admetus of Thessaly is fated …

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