CHS Dialogues | The artistry of death in Homeric epic, with Leonard Muellner
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Rowman and Littlefield | The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories
"What especially distinguishes this book is an awareness of and even sensitivity to the purely human dimensions of ethnocentrism and the problems related to it. The reader is left with the realization that impartial empiricism is not incompatible with compassion." Read more
Rowman and Littlefield | The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories
"What especially distinguishes this book is an awareness of and even sensitivity to the purely human dimensions of ethnocentrism and the problems related to it. The reader is left with the realization that impartial empiricism is not incompatible with compassion." Read more
A Sampling of Comments on the Iliad, by Gregory Nagy
"The Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector, not of Achilles. And it is Hector, not Achilles, who is lamented at the end. But it is Achilles who makes it all happen, since he has transcended his rage and has shown mercy to an old father. The tears of Priam had made Achilles think of his own old father, of his own ancestors—and of Patroklos, who embodied the glories of the ancestors." Read more
CHS Open House | Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone
Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb. Read more
CHS Open House | Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone
Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb. Read more
Forthcoming | The Tears of Achilles, by Hélène Monsacré
Achilles—warrior and hero—by the protocols of Western culture, should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study by Hélène Monsacré shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and Odyssey. Read more
Forthcoming | The Tears of Achilles, by Hélène Monsacré
Achilles—warrior and hero—by the protocols of Western culture, should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study by Hélène Monsacré shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and Odyssey. Read more
How HeroesX Will Change Your Life—If You Let It
"That’s when I realized how important the community is to HeroesX. It’s not so much about me struggling alone with the texts. The project is best experienced when sharing my interpretations with others and again, allowing myself to undergo a transformation as I learn from the others (and perhaps vice-versa.) We may not all agree on things, but at least we can listen to each other and grow." Read more
New on the Hellenic Studies Series | The Art of Reading, by Jean Bollack
The Art of Reading is the first—long overdue—collection of essays by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be published in English. As the scope of the collection demonstrates, Bollack felt at home thinking in depth about two things that seem starkly different to most other thinkers. Read more