Quick she changes form and feature, Makes herself another body; Takes five sharpened scythes of iron, Also takes five goodly sickles, Shapes them into eagle-talons; Takes the body of the vessel, Makes the frame-work of an eagle; Takes the vessel’s ribs and flooring, Makes them into wings and breastplate; For the tail she shapes the rudder; In the wings she plants a thousand Seniors with their bows and arrows; Sets… Read more
You’re invited! Join the New Alexandria Foundation for a lively dialogue with Naomi Weiss, Professor of Classics at Harvard University and creator of Ancient Greece Today, a podcast from the Center for Hellenic Studies. This special Dialogue invites the public into a conversation about the Bacchae and Episode 7 of Ancient Greece Today, featuring Lucy Jackson (Durham University) and Monica Youn (poet, academic, lawyer). What to Expect This is not… Read more
You’re invited! Join the New Alexandria Foundation for a dialogue with Olga M. Davidson, Executive Editor of NAF’s Ilex Project. Olga will discuss her research on Ferdowsi and introduce the latest volume in Ilex’s Mizan Series: Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society in Iran. What to Expect This is not a formal lecture — it’s a guided conversation with plenty of time for your questions. Iran Amplified… Read more
“Then they laid the child of wonder, Fatherless, the magic infant, In the cradle of attention, To be rocked, and fed, and guarded; But he rocked himself at pleasure, Rocked until his locks stood endwise; Rocked one day, and then a second, Rocked the third from morn till noontide; But before the third day ended, Kicks the boy with might of magic, Forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, Kicks in miracles of… Read more
The siege of Eion In 478 BCE, after Pausanias had been recalled from Byzantion, the leadership of the Hellenic League was taken over by the Athenian stratēgós Kimon II.[1] The remaining members of the Hellenic League, assembled in a council [sunédrion] on the holy island of Delos, decided to form an alliance led by Athens, while Sparta and its allies withdrew into the original Peloponnesian League. The objective of this… Read more