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This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many c... more
FAQs about Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education:How many episodes does Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education have?The podcast currently has 214 episodes available.
May 04, 2025Episode 214: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. Conclusion: Acts 3 and 4. Expanding Visions of Transformation through the Power of the Mind Liberated by Love.Changes beyond what common sense deems possible would take place if the human mind could renounce the fear and hate that keep it neurotically imprisoned. The transformation of human nature and even nature itself by love, though with a final limit of time and mutability. ...more40minPlay
April 28, 2025Episode 213: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, Act 3. The Beginning of the Transformation of Nature and Humanity after the Fall of Jupiter.The drama’s conflict ends in Act 3, scene 1, with the demise of Jupiter, with two acts still to come. These are taken up by imagery of the transformation of humanity and nature, not just returning to an ordinary state free of tyranny and suffering, but beginning a metamorphosis into the paradisal. ...more39minPlay
April 21, 2025Episode 212: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, Act 2. In the Depths, Asia Asks Demogorgon Who Rules Even Jupiter. “The Deep Truth Is Imageless.”Asia has descended to the realm of Demogorgon and catechizes him. Who created and rules all things? What is behind and beyond even Jupiter. Demogorgon says, “The deep truth is imageless.” We do not know. All we know is Love, and that is all we need to know....more38minPlay
April 13, 2025Episode 211: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, Act 2. The Descent of Asia and Panthea to the Cave of Demogorgon.A change of scene to the feminine counterpart of Prometheus, named Asia, Shelley’s invention. She and Panthea, guided by a Dream and Spirits, descend to the cave of Demogorgon in a mysterious Otherworld. ...more39minPlay
April 06, 2025Episode 210: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus Regrets the Curse He Pronounced on Jupiter. Mercury and the Furies Arrive.Prometheus calls up the Phantasm of Jupiter to recall the curse he once pronounced on Jupiter, which he now regrets. Mercury arrives with the Furies, who, in this drama of the mind, are the forms of human despair and hopelessness. Other Spirits arrive, sent from a poet’s imagination, saying don’t give up. End of Act 1. ...more37minPlay
March 30, 2025Episode 209: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, Act 1, Scene 1. Prometheus Wants to Recall His Curse on Jupiter, but Can’t Remember It. His Mother, Earth, Tells Him to Summon a Phantasm.Prometheus’s opening speech indicates that he has changed. He no longer hates, and would recant his curse on Jupiter, but can’t remember it. No one, even his mother, Earth, dares tell him. But Earth tells him to summon someone from a mysterious Otherworld “below” death, in which reside images which are the doubles of all things in this life. ...more38minPlay
March 23, 2025Episode 208: Poems about Prometheus as Heroic Rebel, by Goethe and Byron. The Preface to Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.Interest in Prometheus revived in the Romantic revolutionary age. Short poems by Goethe and Byron show his as defiant rebel. Shelley’s famous Preface to his Prometheus Unbound. The influence of Milton’s titanic rebel, Satan. ...more38minPlay
March 16, 2025Episode 207: Versions of Prometheus between Aeschylus and Shelley—and New Versions of Pandora.Christian writers made Pandora the Classical Eve, disobedient the “cause of all our woe.” But in the 17th-19th centuries, Pandora was transvalued as a redemptive figure, especially by Calderón de la Barca and Goethe (influenced by Calderón) in a fragment called Pandora. ...more37minPlay
March 10, 2025Episode 206: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Act 4. Prometheus’ Defiance of Zeus’s Messenger Hermes. The Later Reconciliation of Zeus and Prometheus. Prometheus and the Romantic Era.The drama ends with a proud, defiant Prometheus. The last play of the trilogy, featuring his reconciliation with Zeus, is lost. The new interest in the Prometheus myth during the Romantic era, the age of revolutions. ...more37minPlay
March 03, 2025Episode 205: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, “Act 3,” Io, the Innocently Tormented Woman. Instead of Pandora, a Positive Female Figure.Aeschylus brings in Io, not part of the original Prometheus story, as a positive female figure replacing Pandora. Turned into a cow and stung by a gadfly, she wanders the world, an innocent sufferer. But from her line will come Herakles or Hercules, who will release Prometheus. ...more36minPlay
FAQs about Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education:How many episodes does Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education have?The podcast currently has 214 episodes available.