Miniseries
13 episodes · Jun 12, 1989
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- S1E1
Symposium, or the Received Ideas
Jun 12, 198926mIn Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around tables laden with food and wine.
- S1E2
Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece
Jun 13, 198926mGreece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of totalitarian ideologies - of which Nazism was born.
- S1E3
Democracy, or the City of Dreams
Jun 14, 198926mWhat exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems? What are the analogies or, on the contrary, the radical differences between realities separated by more than twenty centuries? Are certain functions suitable for all civilizations? Τhe third episode of Chris Marker’s legendary documentary series – which first aired on British state television in 1991 but remained in the dark for decades – returns to classical antiquity to make a bold parallel, familiarizing 21st-century audiences with a concept of the commons that seems primordial yet innovative, reinventing itself in every single manifestation.
- S1E4
Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return
Jun 15, 198926mIthaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
- S1E5
Amnesia, or the Sense of History
Jun 16, 198926mBuilt on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.
- S1E6
Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs
Jun 19, 198926mThe 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?
- S1E7
Logomachy, or the Root of Words
Jun 20, 198926mAll 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.
- S1E8
Music, or the Inner Space
Jun 21, 198926mA 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.
- S1E9
Cosmogony, or the Use of the World
Jun 22, 198926mThis 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.
- S1E10
Mythology, or the Truth of Lies
Jun 23, 198926mThere are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche, their transmission, their nature.
- S1E11
Misogyny, or Desire's Traps
Jun 26, 198926mThe 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?
- S1E12
Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
Jun 27, 198926mThe 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.
- S1E13
Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph
Jun 28, 198926mAround 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.