The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours[1] is based on a course that Professor Gregory Nagy has been teaching at Harvard University since the late 1970s.
The book discusses selected readings of texts, all translated from the original Greek into English. The texts include the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey; selected Homeric Hymns; the Hesiodic Theogony and Works and Days; selected songs of Sappho and Pindar; selections from the Histories of Herodotus; the Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides of Aeschylus; the Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles; the Hippolytus and Bacchae of Euripides; and the Apology and Phaedo of Plato. Also included are selections from Pausanias and Philostratus. It is divided into 24 chapters, 24 Hours, each exploring one or several topics.
This series of galleries is created by CHS Kosmos Society members, a dynamic team of community members engaging with others who share their passion for close reading and the ancient Greek world. It attempts to illustrate each Hour with visual art. There are 6 galleries in total, corresponding to 4 hours each.
For Gallery 1, see here.
For Gallery 2, see here.
For Gallery 3, see here.
For Gallery 4, see here.
For Gallery 5, see here.
For Gallery 6, see here.
Featured image credit: David, Jacques Louis, The Death of Socrates 1787. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain, Metropolitan Museum of Art
[1] Nagy, Gregory. 2013. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 2013. Available online at CHS.
https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_NagyG.The_Ancient_Greek_Hero_in_24_Hours.2013