Original upload date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:42:46 GMT
Dr. Dimitris Krallis is Professor of Humanities and Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University. Topics are in the description, below. Our discussi
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on included the continuity of Hellenism after antiquity and especially in the Byzantine period; the question "how philosophy travels" with social and economic motivations; the 11th-century monk, writer, and philosopher Michael Psellos; the viability of the "toolbox" or "thought-world" of Greek stories, including myth and philosophy, in the modern world; and the concept of aretē or excellence.
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Leo the Philosopher and "how philosophy travels" in the 9th-10th century CE
08:20 Canon-formation and the role of the Byzantines in making the canon
12:40 Michael Psellos in the 11th century CE
22:20 "Shared thought-world" of Greek mythology and story in Byzantine society
31:45 Psellos on education, and modern uses of ancient and Byzantine Greek thought
Stavros Niarchos Foundation: https://www.snf.org
Dr. Krallis' webpage: https://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/about/people/d-krallis.html
