In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining the site, I would offer a separate list of… Read more
Join Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner as they read the Odyssey, Book 1, Lines 98–112. You can find the text via Perseus here. Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more
We are pleased to welcome Joel Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio/Brandeis University) for a discussion about ancient Greek proverbs, which will take place on Thursday, June 23 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will be streamed live, and will be recorded. Joel Christensen prepared several blog posts for interested readers to focus. Paroimiai: Proverbs from Ancient Greece to Star Trek… Read more
