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Audio: Gregory Nagy, “Was there a future for the Phaeacians of the Homeric Odyssey?”

On January 20, 2014 Gregory Nagy gave a public talk at the Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies. Several members of our community attended the event, and one even made an informal recording of the lecture. We are so pleased to share this participant-generated resource with the community. The text from this talk is now available here: Nagy:_Was there a future for the Phaeacians… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Ancient Greek Brides, Death, and Exchange, with Olga Levaniouk

Our community recently welcomed Professor Olga Levaniouk of the University of Washington to the Chatroom. (We hope to share that transcript with you in the coming days.) After the live chat, Professor Levaniouk joined us by video to share additional thoughts about her research on ancient Greek weddings. Together we raise and discuss several provocative questions such as: Why does the bride wish for death at one point in the… Read more

Book Club

Current Book Club Selection: Aristophanes’ Clouds

The Book Club of Hour 25 will be opening with Aristophanes’ Clouds. Cedric H. Whitman in his book Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (Harvard University Press 1964) describes Clouds as: “… a  serious work that is almost universally accepted as a manifesto of Aristophanes’ educational beliefs, his hatred of sophistic teaching, and his belief in the old, conservative way…” Chapter IV-p 119 The play is available online on the following links. https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/clouds… Read more

Announcements

Chat with Olga Levaniouk Thursday Jan. 16 and Friday Jan. 17

Professor Olga Levaniouk visited Hour 25 on Thursday, January 16th in the live chatroom and then answered some questions on this topic thread in the Forum, our meeting space for visiting scholars. She visited the chatroom again the following day. Levaniouk is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. Her first book, Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19, uses the first dialogue between Penelope and… Read more

Announcements

New Year, New Life, New Banner

A guest post by Jacqui Donlon With the arrival of the New Year, our Hour 25 site was dressed up with a new look. Even in its cropped form, the beauty of the mosaic is evident; and there is a wonderful story behind this banner. It is a story of a masterpiece created, lost, then restored back to life. The portion that you see above is part of a triptych mosaic… Read more