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Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

Responding to George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets’ use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences’ understanding of abstract concepts. In particular, he considers Homeric images that associate flowers with the concepts of deception, disorder, and death, and examines the ways in which the poets engage with natural phenomena such as the brief, diverse blooms of… Read more

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2019 Publications Interns Share Their Experience

As anyone who has passed through the offices of the CHS this summer and was greeted by the sight of four interns taking up an entire office knows, we are a package deal. After the first two weeks of the summer, during which we learned how to convert xml files for Perseus’ new Scaife Viewer, digitizing Homeric papyri in collaboration with papyrologists from… Read more

Exhibits

EPIC | Illustrations by Gareth Hinds

This exhibition featured watercolor illustrations from Gareth Hinds’s graphic novel adaptations of the epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Hinds uses traditional and digital media to create vivid depictions of the action and emotion in each epic. His dynamic color palettes and careful details differentiate the numerous gods and heroes. Read more