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Visiting Scholars

Open House | Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife, with Joel Christensen

We were pleased to welcome back Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) for our Open House discussion, when we were talking about ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’, which was originally given as a keynote talk at the 2015 Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies. To prepare for the discussion, participants might like to read the paper, which is available at Acadameia.edu, here. The abstract introduces the… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Dreams of Barchin and Penelope, with Olga Levaniouk

We were pleased to welcome back Professor Olga Levaniouk (University of Washington) for an Open House discussion on “The dreams of Barchin and Penelope.” The webcast was recorded and can be viewed below, or you can watch on our YouTube channel. To prepare for this conversation, participants might like to read Olga Levaniouk’s Eve of the Festival Chapter 13, “The Dream.” Featured in the video was Olga Levaniouk’s translation of… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | October 2015: Cretan Lies

Our next Book Club selections explore the Cretan Lies of Odysseus. Our readings are: Odyssey books 13, 14, and 19, with particular focus on these passages: Athena 13.250–370 Eumaios 14.185–530 Penelope 19.163–348 Olga Levaniouk: Eve of the Festival, Chapter 1 ‘Beginning of the Dialogue: Setting up the Third Cretan Lie’ Classical Inquiries post by Gregory Nagy: A Cretan Odyssey, Part I We will meet for a live conversation via Google+… Read more

Announcements,  Word Study

The Meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι Through Its Formulas

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to share Professor Leonard Muellner’s The meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι through its formulas, the 1976 landmark study based on his dissertation. This online publication is open to all and free of charge. Eukhomai had been glossed traditionally as “pray, long for, wish for; vow, promise; boast, brag, vaunt; profess, declare.” Muellner’s approach is to make a systematic analysis of the constraints in which this word is… Read more

Word Study

Core Vocab: nēpios

Our previous Core Vocab discussion centered on alēthēs (adjective) ‘true, true things’; alētheia (noun) ‘truth’, and we had considered how this word can also be thought of as “being not mentally disconnected.”[1] So this month we will consider another ‘disconnected’ word: nēpios, plural nēpioi. In the Core Vocab, the definition is given as “‘disconnected’ (the disconnection can be mental, moral, or emotional).”[2] In this first example of the word, the… Read more