Chapter One: Recognition and the Return of Odysseus During their meeting in Book 13, Athena and Odysseus sit down together at the base of an olive tree and concoct the plot through which, imitating the story of a disguised god, he will defeat his enemies. This then becomes the plot, in a literary sense, of the second half of the poem, a plot shaped by the deployment of a divine strategy… Read more
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey: preface to the 2nd edition This book is a study of how the plot of the Odyssey works. It represents an effort to uncover the particular significance in this poem of recognition, a plot device so common that it figures as one of Propp’s thirty-nine functions of the folktale and plays a key role, under the name of anagnorisis, in Aristotle’s analysis in the… Read more
Funding Sources for the CHS Summer Programs The two main funding options for the CHS summer programs this year are CHS funding and Rockefeller funding. When applying to CHS summer programs, students are also applying for funding through the CHS at the same time. However, the CHS still needs students to fill out a CARAT sheet with the OIP so that they will have the funding information for their records,… Read more
Originally published in J. K. Berenson Maclean and E. B. Aitken, eds., Flavius Philostratus, Heroikos (Atlanta 2001) xv-xxxv. The original pagination,which was indicated in roman numerals, will be indicated in this electronic version by way of the corresponding arabic numerals within braces (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{16|17}” indicates where p. xvi of the printed article ends and p. xvii begins. The traditional practice of worshipping heroes, commonly known as… Read more
GRADUATE STUDENT SUMMER SEMINAR 2010 June 24 – July 8, 2010 in Washington, DC Greek Dialects and Greek Historical Grammar This summer graduate seminar at the CHS focuses on Greek historical grammar and the Greek dialects. The seminar will combine a detailed introduction to the comparative and historical grammar of Greek with a close reading of inscriptional and literary material from Attic-Ionic, Aeolic (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian), West Greek… Read more
