|4 He [= Hēraklēs] used to travel all over the boundless earth and all over the sea, |5 veering from his path and wandering off, all because of the missions assigned to him by Eurystheus the king. |6 He [= Hēraklēs] performed many reckless things on his own, and he suffered many such things in return. (trans. Gregory Nagy, Hour 22 Text D, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours)… Read more
~ A guest post by Laura Ford ~ Did Odysseus return to Troy after his initial departure? And if so, why? The Iliad, which ends before the fall of Troy, gives us no information about the sack of the city or the departure of the Greeks. But there are some scanty details offered in the Odyssey and in the summaries of the poems of the epic cycle. In Odyssey 3… Read more
On Thursday May 1st 2014, at 12:00 noon EDT, Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) joined members of Hour 25 (now Kosmos Society) for a live discussion and broadcast via Google Hangout. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or via the frame embedded in this post below. Thanks to all who submitted questions in the Forum, and who participated in and watched the hangout. Discussion with Gregory Nagy You… Read more
Join us on APRIL 28th 2014 at 1:00 p.m. EDT for a community reading and discussion of the opening of Euripides’ Herakles. This event will be broadcast live and recorded via an On Air Google Hangout. All members of Hour 25 are invited to participate, but space is limited. If you would like to join in, please RSVP by emailing hero(at)chs.harvard.edu. Since this session will be broadcast and recorded, all… Read more
This [hēde] is the public presentation [apo-deixis] of the inquiry [historia] of Herodotus of Halikarnassos, with the purpose of bringing it about that whatever results from men may not, with the passage of time, become evanescent, and that great and wondrous deeds—some of them publicly performed [apo-deik-numai ] by Hellenes, others by barbarians—may not become akleā [= without kleos]. In particular [this apodeixis of this historiā concerns] why (= on account of what cause [aitiā]) they entered… Read more