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Ep. 17: Chaos
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Sep 8, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
How do you acknowledge the wild forces of the world without letting them destroy you? Euripides, the youngest Greek tragedian whose work survives, asked exactly this question in his radical, boundary-pushing play "The Bacchae." In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan explores how, with the clarity of an artist's vision, Euripides saw the downfall of Athens coming and spoke wisely into the heart of his moment—and our own.
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Released:
Sep 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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