Martha C. Nussbaum Quotes About Greek

Quotes about: Greek

• The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Children, Crazy, War

  Source: www.neh.gov

• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

• You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Greek, Chicago, Pay

  Source: www.neh.gov

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