Council of Independent Colleges Seminar Dates: June 17-25, 2018 Ancient Greece in the Modern Classroom In June 2018 The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Center for Hellenic Studies will coorganize a seminar for faculty members in all fields. The seminar, designed for non-specialists, is led by Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of… Read more
Morphology of the Lyric Chorus {18|19} The first step in comprehending what unites the participants in the choral performance is to study the various elements that make up a female lyric chorus during the Archaic period. To understand not only the formal character, but also the dynamic aspect of this unity, I shall study its function as much as its formal structure. The lyric Greek chorus is basically composed of… Read more
About Us The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is an institute affiliated with Harvard University located in Washington D.C. It was founded in 1962 by means of an endowment made “exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to re-discover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks.” This humanistic vision remains the driving force of The Center for Hellenic Studies. The CHS is a… Read more
Chapter 3. Κότος and Social Status {78|79} At the beginning of this study, I suggested that kótos was identified in Calchas’s definition both by the length of time that it lasts and by the social status of the angered party. We have seen that the use of télos, metópisthen, and other related terminology gives kótos a sense of extraordinary duration. The issue of the term’s relation to social status now… Read more
Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed Homer’s language beyond the study of the Iliad’s first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a dozen words for anger. Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and kholos locate two focal points for the study… Read more
Translation and Notes by Gregory Nagy This song, composed by Pindar to be sung and danced by an ad hoc local khoros in the island-state of Aigina, was commissioned by the family of an aristocrat named Aristomenes, as a celebration of his victory in the wrestling event at the Pythian Games of 446 BCE. Strophe 1 Hēsukhiā!1 You whose disposition is kindly to philoi, you Daughter of Dikē,… Read more
Translated by Gregory Nagy Lord Apollo, son of Leto and Zeus, I will always have you 2 on my mind as I begin and as I end my song. You will be my song in the beginning, in the end, and in the middle. 4 Hear my prayer and grant me the things that are noble [esthla]. Lord Phoebus Apollo! When the goddess, Lady Leto, gave birth to you… Read more
Translated by Benjamin Jowett Adapted by Gregory Nagy, Miriam Carlisle, and Soo-Young Kim Persons of the Dialogue Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius Socrates Apollodorus Simmias Cebes Crito Attendant of the Prison Scene The Prison of Socrates. Place of the Narration: Phlius. Echecrates [57a] Were you yourself, Phaedo, in the prison with Socrates… Read more
