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The Owl's Legacy : Season 1
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Air date: 12 Jun '89 - 13 episodesOn the significance of ancient Greek culture in the creation of the modern Western Civilization.
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List of Episodes (13)
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The Owl's Legacy (1989)
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1. Symposium, or the Received Ideas
12 Jun '89In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around tables laden with food and wine.
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2. Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece
13 Jun '89Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of totalitarian ideologies - of which Nazism was born.
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3. Democracy, or the City of Dreams
14 Jun '89What does the word "democracy" specifically mean when it refers to ancient city-states or to our current political systems?
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4. Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return
15 Jun '89Ithaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
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5. Amnesia, or the Sense of History
16 Jun '89Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.
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6. Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs
19 Jun '89The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. How do we articulate its perfect logic to the complexity of contemporary sciences?
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7. Logomachy, or the Root of Words
20 Jun '89All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the human animal fights with a specific weapon: speech... Logos' destiny would it be the "logomachy"? The fight over words.
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8. Music, or the Inner Space
21 Jun '89A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal quests - including with cutting-edge technology - as well as it serves great collective schemes - religions in particular.
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9. Cosmogony, or the Use of the World
22 Jun '89This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acropolis' Korai on show in Tokyo. This takes us on towards the Gorgon - a mirror of death.
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10. Mythology, or the Truth of Lies
23 Jun '89There are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche, their transmission, their nature.
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11. Misogyny, or Desire's Traps
26 Jun '89The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where heterosexuality and homosexuality - far from being opposites - were models of existence that were different but compatible?
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12. Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
27 Jun '89The great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the way to a society like Japan, that is so apparently far from ours.
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13. Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph
28 Jun '89Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existence and public action - sometimes with and sometimes against the Greek legacy.
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