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CHS Open House | Crossing the Sea: Migration in the Ancient World, with Paul O’Mahony
Join us for the next CHS Open House discussion on Thursday, February 16 at 11 a.m. EST. The event will feature a return visit with actor Paul O’Mahony, and will focus on the experience of crossing the sea as depicted in classical texts. Read more
CHS Open House | Crossing the Sea: Migration in the Ancient World, with Paul O’Mahony
Join us for the next CHS Open House discussion on Thursday, February 16 at 11 a.m. EST. The event will feature a return visit with actor Paul O’Mahony, and will focus on the experience of crossing the sea as depicted in classical texts. Read more
Now Online | Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by J. C. B. Petropoulos
"Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by John Petropoulos, is an extraordinarily perceptive work of scholarship. This book compares the description of a festival in Hesiod's Works and Days with the traditions of songs that were actually sung at such festivals, ranging from a drinking song of Alcaeus all the way to the folksong traditions of latter-day Greece. No one before Petropoulos has ever noticed the interconnectedness of all these traditions." Read more
Now Online | Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by J. C. B. Petropoulos
"Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited, by John Petropoulos, is an extraordinarily perceptive work of scholarship. This book compares the description of a festival in Hesiod's Works and Days with the traditions of songs that were actually sung at such festivals, ranging from a drinking song of Alcaeus all the way to the folksong traditions of latter-day Greece. No one before Petropoulos has ever noticed the interconnectedness of all these traditions." Read more