The Meaning of Greek Drama: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

In this lecture, we explore the origin, meaning, and evolution of Greek drama by looking at the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Using the humanistic framework of Giambattista Vico, we begin to understand Greek drama and poetry as the beginning of intellectual wrestling with the nature and destiny of the cosmos, man, and the purpose of human existence.

0:00-24:11 - Aeschylus
24:11-54:31 - Sophocles
54:31-1:19:42 - Euripides
1:19:42-1:27:12 - Aristophanes & Plato
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a political philosopher, literary critic, and classicist. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, politics, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).
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