A guest blog by Janet M Ozsolak When I tell people about the HeroesX project or learning ancient Greek, I mostly see an implicit question mark on their faces. They kindly swim around the question, “What are you going to do with it?” Let’s face it: no one is speaking ancient Greek—let alone Homeric Greek—and knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey may not impress most employers. The question of “why”… Read more
Some say an army of horsemen, some of footsoldiers, some of ships, is the fairest thing on the black earth, but I say it is what one loves. (Sappho 16, lines 1-4, trans. Julia Dubnoff) Sappho captures the essence of love and expresses it with words that makes your tongue have a breakdown and make fire rush under your skin. My tongue has a breakdown and a delicate– all of… Read more
We are pleased to share the following video. It features Professor Gregory Nagy leading a discussion for the Sunoikisis Greek Lyric class from the fall of 2013. Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. In his publications, he has pioneered an approach to Greek literature… Read more
Artist Glynnis Fawkes will visit Hour 25 on Thursday, February 6th from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. EST (Boston, MA) to discuss her work illustrating Homeric Hymns. This event will be held in the Project Chatroom. [Look up the time of this chat in your time zone.] We hope you will join this live session! If you can’t visit at the appointed time, please leave a question for Glynnis in the Forum. Glynnis Fawkes… Read more
A guest post by Jenna Cole following up on our recent chat with Leonard Muellner Many interesting themes came up during our live chat with Professor Muellner, and one of them was the meaning behind Anchises’ name. To start, we look at the name of Anchises’ son, Aeneas: His name will be Aineias [Aeneas], since it was an unspeakable [ainos ]18 akhos that took hold of me—grief that I had… Read more