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Interview | Cartoons and the Homeric Hymns with Artist Glynnis Fawkes

Glynnis Fawkes on Cartoons, Homeric Hymns, and Drawing as a Daily Ritual Our community recently welcomed Artist Glynnis Fawkes to the Chatroom. A few days later, Fawkes joined us by video to share additional thoughts about her work retelling Homeric Hymns through comics. Together we raise and discuss several provocative topics such as: the power of retelling classical myth through cartoons drawing as a method for “entering” a myth dealing… Read more

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In Focus: Song 31 of Sappho

|1 He appears [phainetai] to me, that one, equal to the gods [īsos theoisin], |2 that man who, facing you |3 is seated and, up close, that sweet voice of yours |4 he listens to, |5 and how you laugh a laugh that brings desire. Why, it just |6 makes my heart flutter within my breast. |7 You see, the moment I look at you, right then, for me |8… Read more

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HeroesX and Homeric Greek

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

Book Club

Book Club | February 2014: Poems of Sappho

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

Watch: Gregory Nagy on Greek Lyric

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