The Owl’s Legacy

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The Owl’s Legacy

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https://amp.economist.com/prospero/2018 ... eek-palate

The Economist gives a positive review to this now released 1989 series. Does anybody know more about it?
Still, these matters can be explored, and playfully. Such is the purpose of “The Owl’s Legacy”, a 13-part enquiry which was made for television in 1989 but was rarely seen before its release last month (the Onassis Foundation, the Greek funders of the series, were apparently unhappy with a contribution from George Steiner, a Franco-American literary critic, that questioned the link between modern and ancient Greece). The series is the work of Chris Marker, a French film-maker considered one of the best cinematographic essayists of his generation. Drawing on Plato’s account of the “symposium” as a wide-ranging, wine-fuelled discussion, he shows the contributors gathering round suitably laden tables in various settings: Athens, Paris, Tbilisi, Tokyo and Berkeley, California.
“One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato." "In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.”

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Here's another article on the film which goes into a little more depth:

https://hyperallergic.com/467285/chris- ... etrograph/


It's a little expensive to buy, think I'll wait till it makes it to PBS!

https://www.amazon.com/Owls-Legacy-Elia ... 27s+legacy

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A few brief clips are up in You-Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... 27s+legacy


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