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Visiting Scholars

Open House | Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic, with Douglas Frame

We were pleased to welcome Douglas Frame, for an Open House discussion on ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles’. You can watch the recording of the broadcast via the frame below, or on our YouTube channel. To prepare for this conversation, participants might like to read the following paper by Douglas Frame: Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek… Read more

Using Tags in Forum Threads

A while ago we presented an overview of how to get the most out of the forums, with guidance on how the forums are organized, and how to find and take part in discussions. This post provides guidance on how to use the tagging feature. If you are a member of Hour 25, please join in the conversations and help to continue our tradition of active discourse on the themes… Read more

Gallery

Gallery | Clothes, Warriors, and Weapons

Hoplite and his Charioteer (540–530BCE) National Library Paris In Hour 25, we have had many wonderful discussions about clothes and weapons. Here are two words from the Forum discussion about clothes and armor: κυνέη [kuneē], ‘greaves’ θώραξ [thōrax], ‘breastplate’. In the Gallery below, there is a picture of Pericles with a helmet. It is said that he always wore a helmet because his head had a strange shape. On a picture… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | May 2015: Lysistrata by Aristophanes

We will have a  Book Club discussion of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Our discussion will be held via Google+ Hangout on Thursday, May 21 2015 at 11:00 a.m EDT. Everybody is welcome to join in! Please sign up in the Forum if you would like to join, or if you are unable to make the hangout you can add your comments here in this Forum thread. You can read Ian Johnston’s translation… Read more

Texts

An Interview with Homer

~ A guest post by Laura Ford ~ The ancients seem to have had as many questions about Homer as we moderns do. At the end of the Apology, Plato has Socrates wonder aloud how marvelous it would be if we could anticipate actually meeting and conversing with Homer (along with Orpheus, Musaeus, and Hesiod) in the afterlife: “…if this be true, let me die again and again.” (41a, Sourcebook).… Read more