In this lecture, we explore the Greek playwright Sophocles through the works Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Electra. In it we deconstruct the themes of tyranny, family, and love in the great tragedian.
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, 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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This lecture is based on my essay: "Sophocles and the Necessity of Family," August 26, 2019, Merion West. Read it here: [ Ссылка ]
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