We were excited to welcome Kyriaki Ioannidou for an Open House entitled “Fragments of Menander and the Modern Stage” The event took place on Friday, May 12 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you can preview the topics that will be covered by reading this handout; use the bookmarks pane to navigate to each section: Kosmos Talk Readings and Fragments You can watch… Read more
My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange! Immortal gods inspire my heart, for ye have changed yourselves and all things you have changed! Oh lead my song in smooth and measured strains, from olden days when earth began to this completed time! Invocation, translated by Brookes More This month’s Book Club selection is taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. We previously read Books 12 and… Read more
Heroes in Homeric poetry need to make contact with gods and goddesses. They like to be reassured by them or they fear them and beg. In the following passage, Pallas Athena sends an encouraging message to Odysseus before he goes as a spy to the night ambush. She sends a heron and when Odysseus hears its cry, he prays. It’s a moving scene. When the pair [=Diomedes and Odysseus] had… Read more
We were excited to welcome Jeffrey Rusten, along with Ethan Della Rocca, for an Open House entitled “The Lexeis project: The great Greek author-lexica of the 19th century.” The event took place on Friday, April 28, at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you can preview the topics that will be covered by reading this handout: The Lexeis Project Handout | Kosmos Open House… Read more
We were excited to welcome Ivan Matijašić for an Open House entitled “Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue and its Reception.” The event took place on Friday, April 14 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read the PDF handout linked below: Thucydides Melian Dialogue and its Reception Handout You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or below. Ivan Matijašić Ivan… Read more