A 13-part documentary series by Chris Marker examining how ancient Greek ideas continue to shape modern Western thought. Each episode centers on a single Greek word—such as “democracy,” “philosophy,” or “mythology”—through conversations filmed in cities around the world. Combining symposium-style discussions with archival footage and visual motifs of the owl, Marker creates an expansive reflection on the enduring legacy of Greece.
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Air Date: 1989-06-12
In Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek ban...
Air Date: 1989-06-13
Greece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for t...
Air Date: 1989-06-14
What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary polit...
Air Date: 1989-06-15
Ithaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
Air Date: 1989-06-16
Built on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply s...
Air Date: 1989-06-19
The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with....
Air Date: 1989-06-20
All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the ...
Air Date: 1989-06-21
A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal qu...
Air Date: 1989-06-22
This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the A...
Air Date: 1989-06-23
There are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psych...
Air Date: 1989-06-26
The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where h...
Air Date: 1989-06-27
The great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the wa...
Air Date: 1989-06-28
Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in d...