• 1990
Greek Fire

Summary Modern man's search for self through 2,500 years of history, exploring Greek city states' profound influence on our views of sex, science, religion, drama, politics, philosophy, architecture, and war. View more details

  • 1990

Greek Fire

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Juliet Stevenson

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 1990

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Transatlantic Films

Summary Modern man's search for self through 2,500 years of history, exploring Greek city states' profound influence on our views of sex, science, religion, drama, politics, philosophy, architecture, and war. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 1990

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Transatlantic Films

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Greek Fire (1990)

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Source
The story begins in Sparta, but in Sparta Wisconsin. From Athens to the American Mid-West, the Greeks are part of the modern lives we lead. The geography they dominate is the geography of our imagination.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Myth
The myth of Oedipus, through Freud, has had far more effect on us than it ever had on the Greeks. Freud linked myth to the movements of the consciousness. Jung called the collect unconsciousness a myth - producing part of the mind.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Politics
The world is turning upside down and it is all in the name of an ideal, in a word invented by the Greeks - democracy.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Sex
Ancient Greek myths involve endless tales of seduction. In ancient Greek pottery, painting and poetry you find exuberant sexuality and uninhibited sexual activity in abundance.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Tragedy
The Greeks have left a legacy which challenges and shocks our modern attitude toward calamity and disaster.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Architechture
Architecture is the most public of the arts, shaping the way we live. Polyclitus said that proportion is not a matter of personal taste, but depends on mathematical laws of harmony, which can only be broken at the expense of beauty.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Science
Twenty six hundred years ago, in an ancient Greek town called Miletus, the first scientific question was asked: is there a rational basis for the way the world works? As men looked at the world more and more carefully, it seemed to make less and less sense for there are certain things that man intrinsically cannot know.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Art
The most famous statue from antiquity is a beautiful naked woman with no arms - Venus de Milo. In the museum of our imagination there is an ideal beauty of wishful sensuality and almost mystical ecstasy which she represents.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Ideas
What is real? To that deceptively simple question, Plato, the greatest of Greek philosophers came up with a startling answer - one which has had incalculable consequences. His answer was: "Nothing is". Man's search for truth started with the Ancient Greeks and we have been asking questions ever since.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
War
Can man learn to live without war? In the nuclear age he has to, but history is against him. War is as old as civilisation itself and the greatest war epic, The Illiad, has survived for nearly 3,000 years of retelling but the rules have changed in a world where Homer's poetic similes of destruction have become a reality.

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