Immortal Glory and The Dying Body: Nietzsche, Mishima, Homer, & Costin Alamariu

We often speak of the philosophy and statecraft which we inherited from the Greeks. But this is all abstract. Our inheritance from the Greeks which we can still see and touch are their statues, depicting beautiful, powerful, athletic bodies. And implicit in these statues, concealed within their immortalized flesh, are the two greatest Hellenic inventions: the idea of heroism, and the idea of nature.

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0:00 Heroism & Nature
2:24 Achilles & The Iliad
5:03 Death & Immortality
6:44 Pindar & Physis
9:54 The Eleusinian Mysteries
12:34 Phue & Arete
15:32 The Hymn to Demeter
17:17 Physical Culture
19:07 Mishima: Sun and Steel

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