One of the recurring thematic features of a ancient Greek tragedy involves the conundrum oikos (the household, the family) and the polis (the city-state, the society), and more precisely how aporia (a situation without a solution) stems from the principle where one the polis needs to be upheld at the expense of the oikos and vice-versa. Let’s take, for example, Sophocles’ Antigone. In order to honor her household, the lead character has to break the laws of the polis. For that she is punished with a fate worst than death, but also being stranded in the after-life as she is refused the burial rituals that would allow her to cross the river of the dead in order to find rest in the Elysian Fields.
A Spaceship Named Delusion (part 2)
A Spaceship Named Delusion (part 2)
A Spaceship Named Delusion (part 2)
One of the recurring thematic features of a ancient Greek tragedy involves the conundrum oikos (the household, the family) and the polis (the city-state, the society), and more precisely how aporia (a situation without a solution) stems from the principle where one the polis needs to be upheld at the expense of the oikos and vice-versa. Let’s take, for example, Sophocles’ Antigone. In order to honor her household, the lead character has to break the laws of the polis. For that she is punished with a fate worst than death, but also being stranded in the after-life as she is refused the burial rituals that would allow her to cross the river of the dead in order to find rest in the Elysian Fields.