In this video, Gregory Nagy discusses with Douglas Frame and Leonard Muellner an introduction to how ancient Greek dialects function in Homeric poetry. Read more
Join us for the next CHS Online Open House discussion on Thursday, April 20 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will feature a return visit with Douglas Frame, Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Read more
Join us for the next CHS Online Open House discussion on Thursday, April 20 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will feature a return visit with Douglas Frame, Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Read more
A Homer Commentary in Progress, an evolving, collaborative commentary based on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, who created a new way of thinking about Homeric poetry, goes live! Read more
~A guest post by Leonard Muellner~ The intellectual goal of A Homer commentary in progress is simple and at the same time most ambitious: of all existing commentaries on Homeric poetry, ours is the first and only such commentary that is based squarely on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and his student, Albert Lord, who created a new way of thinking about Homeric poetry. Both Parry and Lord taught… 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
Join Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner as they read the Odyssey, Book 1, Lines 93–98. You can find the text via Perseus here. Read more
Join Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner as they read the Odyssey, Book 1, Line 80–92. You can find the text via Perseus here. Read more
We are pleased to welcome Douglas Frame, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles’ on Thursday, June 4 at 11:00 a.m EDT. You can watch the Live broadcast via the frame below, or at the event page on Google + here. To prepare for this conversation, participants might like… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website. Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in the Yugoslavia of 1933–35. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry to further understand how… Read more
