CHS Open House: The Táin, with Richard Martin

We are pleased to welcome Professor Richard Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, for our CHS Open House discussion on the Táin, concentrating on The Cattle-Raid of Cooley. Numbers 7-7b. The discussion will take place on Thursday, May 5 at 11:00 a.m. EDT.
For the live stream event, other resources related to this event and for a discussion with community members on the topic, visit the Hour 25 website.

Before becoming Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor at Stanford in 2000, Professor Martin taught Classics for eighteen years at Princeton University. He is  working on several books, concerning Homeric religion; myth; and ancient poetry in performance. He interprets Greek poetry in the light of performance traditions and social practices. His primary interests are in Homeric epic, Greek comedy, mythology, and ancient religion. His research is informed by comparative evidence ranging from fieldwork on oral traditions in contemporary Crete to studies in medieval Irish literature.
Among his major publications are Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry (1983) and The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (1989). He has also published books for general audiences (Myths of the Ancient Greeks, 2003; Bulfinch’s Mythology, edit. 1991) and a number of articles on Greek, Latin, and Irish literature.

Image credit: https://classics.stanford.edu/people/richard-p-martin

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