Professor Leonard Muellner shares his experience from the visit to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lille 2, and his lecture about Homeric poetry to an audience of 500 students. Read more
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
The following video series provides a guided introduction to the ancient Greek language. The videos are meant to correspond to the textbook Greek: An Intensive Course, 2nd revised edition, by Hardy Hansen and Gerald M. Quinn. 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
“First was the Golden Age. Then rectitude spontaneous in the heart prevailed, and faith. Avengers were not seen, for laws unframed were all unknown and needless. Punishment and fear of penalties existed not. No harsh decrees were fixed on brazen plates. No suppliant multitude the countenance of Justice feared, averting, for they dwelt without a judge in peace.” Read more
“First was the Golden Age. Then rectitude spontaneous in the heart prevailed, and faith. Avengers were not seen, for laws unframed were all unknown and needless. Punishment and fear of penalties existed not. No harsh decrees were fixed on brazen plates. No suppliant multitude the countenance of Justice feared, averting, for they dwelt without a judge in peace.” Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and Information… 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
