The Culturalist: Finding Ancient Greece's Homer and Tragedians
![The Parthenon temple on Acropolis hill is seen deserted as deserted as concerns grow over the Coronavirus Outbreak in Athens , on 19 March 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2021-07/GettyImages-1207699655.jpg?h=cd4c5dda&itok=PaHaUb2E)
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson explains to his cohost Sami Winc the genesis of Homeric epics from Mycenaean times to the Homeric age post 800 B.C., Homer's revelation of Greek farm life, and then the tragedians of the Greek theater and their tragic hero's. The exploits of Pentheus as a woman in Euripides' "The Bacchae" is worth waiting for.
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