CHS Kosmos Society Open House | Persian epic & the embedding of a song of lament, with O. Davidson
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CHS Kosmos Society Open House | Recall Strategies in the Iliad, with Lynn Kozak
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CHS dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Achilles the lover
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Glimpses of the 2019 Harvard Summer Program in Greece
On the 4th of August 2019 we bade farewell to the students of another successful Harvard Summer Program in Greece. Divided between the seaside town of Nafplio and the historical city of Thessaloniki, with intermediate stops in Olympia and Athens, Harvard Summer Program in Greece has proven to be the oldest and one of the most successful Harvard study-abroad programs. Read more
Now Online | "A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus", by Gregory Nagy
In this essay Professor Nagy highlights a ritual as described in the Heroikos of Philostratus, 52.3–54.1. Read more
Now Online | “A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus”, by Gregory Nagy
In this essay Professor Nagy highlights a ritual as described in the Heroikos of Philostratus, 52.3–54.1. Read more
CHS dialogues with Gregory Nagy | The Iliad and its Muse, or Muses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonLfTAux-c… Read more
Online Open House | Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament, with Olga M. Davidson
We are pleased to welcome back Olga M. Davidson, Boston University, for a discussion on ‘Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament’. The event will take place on Thursday, September 19 at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded. Read more
Online Open House | Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament, with Olga M. Davidson
We are pleased to welcome back Olga M. Davidson, Boston University, for a discussion on ‘Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament’. The event will take place on Thursday, September 19 at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded. Read more
Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer
Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife’s hands. Yet while Agamemnon’s story exerts an outsize influence—rivaled by few epic personalities—on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Odyssey, scholars have not adequately considered his full portrait. What was Agamemnon like as a character for Homer and his audience? More fundamentally, how should we approach the topic of characterization… Read more