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Now playing: Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

Now playing: Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

By Edith Hall

Runtime07:25:12
Parts10
Spoken inEnglish
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10 parts
  1. 1 Facing Down The Furies - 001 00:08:35
  2. 2 Facing Down The Furies - 002 00:46:21
  3. 3 Facing Down The Furies - 003 01:10:13
  4. 4 Facing Down The Furies - 004 00:45:10
  5. 5 Facing Down The Furies - 005 00:57:23
  6. 6 Facing Down The Furies - 006 01:07:35
  7. 7 Facing Down The Furies - 007 00:55:09
  8. 8 Facing Down The Furies - 008 01:07:40
  9. 9 Facing Down The Furies - 009 00:17:56
  10. 10 Facing Down The Furies - 010 00:09:11

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In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves.” Edith Hall, whose own life and psyche have been shaped by such loss—her mother’s grandfather, mother, and first cousin all took their own lives—traces the philosophical arguments on suicide, from Plato and Aristotle to David Hume

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