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

by Edith Hall

Duration07:25:12

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LanguageEnglish

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1 Facing Down The Furies - 001 00:08:35
2 Facing Down The Furies - 002 00:46:21
3 Facing Down The Furies - 003 01:10:13
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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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