Sophocles

Eating Poetry (XXIII) – The “Ode To Man” from Sophocles’ Antigone

September 25, 2010

The famous line of Alfred North Whitehead is “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” I am increasingly persuaded that over two thousand years of contemplating and expressing the human condition is a series of footnotes to the Greeks. Here, from The [...]

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