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Hour 25 Celebrates the “Heroization” of Euripides’ Medea

The Medea “Heroization” Workshop held at CHS, April 7–8, 2016 In 2014 members of Hour 25 shared a revised translation of Sophocles’ Antigone that matches and complements the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation as used in HeroesX. Since then, community members have been using this “heroized” translation of Antigone to reach out to high school students in the US and abroad through through the medium of performance. This year Hour 25… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Táin, with Richard Martin

We were pleased to welcome Professor Richard P Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, for our Open House discussion on the Táin, concentrating on The Cattle-Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge) Numbers 7–7b, on the young Cuchulain. Members can start the conversation on the Forum. You can watch the recording of this discussion in the frame below, or on our YouTube channel. Mentioned in the… Read more

Topic for Discussion

Exploring Bread

The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her [=Aphrodite], and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her [=Aphrodite’s] hand, so that the immortal blood,[340] or ikhōr, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.… Read more

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Helen

  Finding Helen in texts is frustrating. Many contradictory facts may be encountered. Who was Helen? What about her life, her power, her birth, her beauty? Was she hated or was she loved? If we were to write a short biography, it might read like this: Helen was the daughter of Leda and Tyndareus/Zeus, and Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces’ sister. Penelope was her cousin. She married Menelaos king of Sparta,… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Aesop and Fable, with Arti Mehta

We were pleased to welcome Arti Mehta, Lecturer in Classics at Howard University, for our Open House discussion on Aesop. To prepare for the discussion, participants might like to read Mehta’s handout and article: “Aesop and Fable: A God of Small Things,” handout: [Word | PDF] “Fox and Jackal: The Individual Against the Collective” (online in Classics@ 12: “Comparative Approaches to India and Greece”). You can watch the recording of this discussion… Read more