Deadline for registration: Friday, August 19, 2016 The Sunoikisis Fall 2016 course on leadership in the ancient world is now live and open to the public. This course is designed to serve as introduction to the ancient Mediterranean world in the tradition of courses on vocabulary building through Greek and Latin, mythology, and gender and sexuality. The course’s particular goal is to inspire new… Read more
Save the date! Don’t miss these live webcasts with visiting scholars on a wide variety of topics! Wednesday, August 10: Maria Xanthou, on Pindar (University of Leeds) Thursday September 15: John C. Franklin, on Kinyras: The Divine Lyre (University of Vermont) Thursday, September 29: Deborah Beck, topic to be determined (University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, October 13: Stomata Dova, topic to be determined (Hellenic College) Stay tuned for further announcements!… Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad Scroll 5 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. Nagy’s commentary will be incorporated into a larger, forthcoming project: A Homer commentary in progress. I.05.103 tagging: best of the Achaeans; aristeiā ‘epic high point’; plot of the Iliad; narrative arc This verse shows that the hero Diomedes has a chance to qualify as ‘the best of the Achaeans’, aristos… Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad Scroll 5 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. Nagy’s commentary will be incorporated into a larger, forthcoming project: A Homer commentary in progress. I.05.103 tagging: best of the Achaeans; aristeiā ‘epic high point’; plot of the Iliad; narrative arc This verse shows that the hero Diomedes has a chance to qualify as ‘the best of the Achaeans’, aristos Akhaiōn. BA 30. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in this summer’s Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seminar. This summer participants worked their way through the nine books of Herodotus’ Histories while also reading secondary literature in order to present these texts to students across the nation. This year we were pleased to have 17 professors… Read more
With the Olympic Games coming up, Sarah Scott, an active participant and member of the editorial team in Hour 25, shares this month’s Core Vocab word which is āthlos (aethlos) [ἆθλος/ἄεθλος] ‘contest, ordeal; competition’; and āthlētēs [ἀθλητής], ‘athlete’. In HeroesX Gregory Nagy introduces the word āthlētēs in a section about the Labors of Hēraklēs and the founding of the Olympic Games: Hēraklēs not only founded this major festival: he also competed in every athletic… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Recapturing Sophocles’ Antigone, by Larry Joe Bennett and William Blake Tyrrell, approaches the Antigone of Sophocles by concentrating on the historical context of audience reception. From this point of view, they force a reassessment of the basic question: what is this play about? According to Bennett and Tyrrell, the Antigone is not about burying a corpse,… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Recapturing Sophocles’ Antigone, by Larry Joe Bennett and William Blake Tyrrell, approaches the Antigone of Sophocles by concentrating on the historical context of audience reception. From this point of view, they force a reassessment of the basic question: what is this play about? According to Bennett and Tyrrell, the Antigone is not about burying a corpse,… Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad Scroll 4 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. Nagy’s commentary will be incorporated into a larger, forthcoming project: A Homer commentary in progress. I.04.227 tagging: therapōn ‘attendant, ritual substitute’; Eurymedon; Sthenelos; Patroklos; chariot driver/fighter In this first Iliadic attestation of therapōn in the singular, we see at first only the surface meaning, ‘attendant’. But… Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad Scroll 4 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. Nagy’s commentary will be incorporated into a larger, forthcoming project: A Homer commentary in progress. I.04.227 tagging: therapōn ‘attendant, ritual substitute’; Eurymedon; Sthenelos; Patroklos; chariot driver/fighter In this first Iliadic attestation of therapōn in the singular, we see at first only the surface meaning, ‘attendant’. But there… Read more
