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Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a kind… Read more

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Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a… Read more

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A Homer commentary in progress: A forthcoming project from CHS!

~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

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Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of  Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that… Read more

Publications

Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of  Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really… Read more

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Now Online | The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic, by Leonard Muellner

We are pleased to announce the online publication of The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic, by Leonard Muellner, for free on the CHS website. Muellner’s goal is to restore the Greek word for the anger of Achilles, mênis, to its social, mythical, and poetic contexts. His point of departure is the anthropology of emotions. He believes that notions of anger vary between cultures and that the… Read more

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Now Online | The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic, by Leonard Muellner

We are pleased to announce the online publication of The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic, by Leonard Muellner, for free on the CHS website. Muellner’s goal is to restore the Greek word for the anger of Achilles, mênis, to its social, mythical, and poetic contexts. His point of departure is the anthropology of emotions. He believes that notions of anger vary between cultures and that the particular… Read more

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Now Online | A Californian Hymn to Homer, by Timothy Pepper

We are pleased to announce the online publication of A Californian Hymn to Homer, edited by Timothy Pepper, for free on the CHS website. The book is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways… Read more

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Now Online | A Californian Hymn to Homer, by Timothy Pepper

We are pleased to announce the online publication of A Californian Hymn to Homer, edited by Timothy Pepper, for free on the CHS website. The book is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of… Read more

News, Publications

Now Online from Gregory Nagy

Two of Professor Nagy’s most recent articles have become available under the online publication Short Writings Volume IV, the fourth volume in a series of online anthologies, all available online for free at the CHS website. “Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians” This essay discusses the term logioi, as this is encountered in all the Herodotean contexts. Nagy argues that logioi is a term referring… Read more