~ A guest post by Jacqui Donlon ~ If you have been cruising around the Forum lately watching the home page videos or participating with the visiting scholars, you would have heard this phrase quite a lot. Absent signifier. I first heard this term in the HeroesX discussion board posts from Lenny Mueller. Now that I have started reading more of Douglas Frame’s work, I see it there. It is… Read more
The Hour 25 Book Club’s selection for April is Herakles by Euripides. The drama is part of our Text Library, and it is available under the “Texts” page as a PDF or epub. Join us for the following events: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Google+ Hangout at 1:00 p.m EDT Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Live Chat/ Project Chatroom at 2:00 p.m EDT If you plan to attend the Google+ Hangout, please… Read more
We are pleased to share the following video tutorial featuring Professor Joel Christensen introducing the Greek alphabet. You may download a transcription of the session: Introducing_the_Ancient_Greek_Alphabet_Joel_Christensen (PDF) You can find further tutorials and resources on the Greek Learning Modules page. Video Tutorial: The Greek Alphabet, with Joel Christensen Read more
We are pleased to share the following video dialogue featuring CHS Sunoikisis Fellow in Curricular Development Ryan Fowler. Fowler is currently helping to teach an innovative Sunoikisis course titled “Reading the Iliad,” in which over 100 students from multiple universities are working together to engage deeply and slowly with one Homeric epic over an entire semester. Students in this course are also using portions of the content available through HeroesX. We hope… Read more
|326 I [= Nestor] will tell you [= Antilokhos] a sign [sēma], a very clear one, which will not get lost in your thinking. |327 Standing over there is a stump of deadwood, a good reach above ground level. |328 It had been either an oak or a pine. And it hasn’t rotted away from the rains. |329 There are two white rocks propped against either side of it. |330… Read more