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Open House | The Odyssey and Breaking Bad, with Joel Christensen

Joel Christensen on the Odyssey, Breaking Bad, and Problematic Endings Professor Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) joined us to discuss the ways that Breaking Bad can help us rethink our reading of Odysseus and the violent ending of the Odyssey. He was joined in this video dialogue by several members of the community. Together they raise and discuss provocative questions such as: How do Odysseus and Walter White… Read more

Topic for Discussion

In Focus: Iliad 9.599–606

|599 He [Nestor] was seen and noted by swift-footed radiant Achilles, |600 who was standing on the spacious stern of his ship, |601 watching the sheer pain [ponos] and tearful struggle of the fight. |602 Then, all of a sudden, he called to his comrade [hetairos] Patroklos, |603 calling from the ship, and he [Patroklos] from inside the tent heard him [Achilles], |604 and he [Patroklos] came out, equal [īsos]… Read more

Topic for Discussion,  Word Study

Under Discussion: The Wine-dark Sea

“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.” The Odyssey v (George Chapman translation) The Wine-dark Sea A guest post by Jacqui Donlon One of the persistent topics that surfaced again and again throughout H24H HeroesX discussions (for example this thread in v1)… Read more

Core Vocab with Greek

Depending on context, adjectives in -os [-ος] (masculine), may be given with other endings: -ē [-η] (feminine), -on [-ον] (neuter), -oi [-οι] (masculine plural), -ai [-αι] (feminine plural), -a [-α] (neuter plural). Core Vocab [with Greek] agathos [ἀγαθός] ‘good, noble’ agōn [ἀγών], plural agōnes [ἀγῶνες] ‘coming together; competition (antagonism); ordeal (agony)’ agora [ἀγορά], plural agorai [ἀγοραί] ‘public assembly, place of public assembly’ aidōs [αἰδώς] ‘shame, sense of shame; sense of… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | March 2014: The Short Writings of Douglas Frame

We are very pleased to welcome Douglas Frame to Hour 25. It will be timely to read three articles by Douglas Frame for the Book Club’s March selection. Achilles and Patroclos as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take New Light on the Homeric Question: The Phaeacians Unmasked The Homeric Poems After Ionia: A Case in Point, in Classics@ 3 We will read “Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take” AND “New… Read more