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Open House | Weaver as a Hero with Susan T Edmunds

We were pleased to welcome Susan T. Edmunds for our Open House discussion, about weaving and the weaver as hero. The following videos would be helpful in starting the conversation. Revealing of past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYgHRwlXDX8 The Art of Making a Tapestry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbu-dJuEh0 To prepare for this event you may like to read the following focus passages below. The event was recorded, and you can watch this discussion in the frame below,… Read more

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Plutarch’s “On the Malice of Herodotus”

A guest post by Laura Ford Plutarch’s essay on Herodotus has been described as “the world’s earliest known book review.”[1] We all have seen examples of this type of writing: a scathing review by a reviewer whose negative comments reveal an underlying bias against the author or his work that seems to obviate any pretense of an objective appraisal. Such an approach is puzzling in this case in that it… Read more

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Shields in Iliad and the Use of Metals

…He [Agammenon] took moreover the richly-wrought shield that covered his body when he was in battle—fair to see, with ten circles of bronze running all round it. On the body of the shield there were twenty bosses of white tin, [35] with another of dark lapis in the middle: this last was made to show a blank-eyed Gorgon’s head, fierce and grim, with Rout and Panic on either side. The… Read more

Gallery

Gallery: Who’s Who?

In this Gallery, you will see some familiar people from the past. Writers, heroes, politicians, philosophers, among them: Pittacus, Epicurus, Socrates, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Cesar, Augustus… Are also present Zeus and his wife Hera (or Juno), Medusa, and don’t be scared to look at her… If you want to know more about these famous people, Plutarch wrote many biographies. Among them, he offers a long, and beautiful physical description… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Herodotus, with Alexander Hollmann

We were pleased to welcome Alexander Hollmann (University of Washington) for an Open House discussion about Herodotus. The event was recorded. His book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories, is available online. You can watch this discussion in the frame below, or on our YouTube channel. To prepare for this event you may like to read the following passages below. Members may like to… Read more