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Gallery: Jewels and Precious Objects

Gold openwork hairnet with medallion (200–150BCE) This Gallery is going to show you some jewels and some precious ornaments or objects. The pictures were taken at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In this passage, when Hera wants to seduce Zeus, she goes to her room to prepare herself. Earrings are part of her attire. [170] She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed… Read more

Open House | Linked Open Data for the Graeco-Roman World with Dr. Monica Berti

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Monica Berti, of Leipzig University, to join members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion on the principles and recommendations of the so called “Linked Open Data” (LOD) to share and reuse data across the web. The focus will be on the use of LOD in the field of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Examples will be taken from the project “Linked Ancient Greek and… Read more

Book Club | November 2024 : Aristophanes’ Peace

Peace, comedy by Aristophanes, performed at the Great Dionysia in 421 BCE. The plot concerns the flight to heaven on a monstrous dung beetle by a war-weary farmer, Trygaeus (“Vintager”), who searches for the lost goddess Peace only to discover that the God of War has buried her in a pit.  The play was written during the Peloponnesian War fought between Athens and Sparta. It was staged about seven months… Read more

Open House | Killing With Words: Character Assassination with Dr. Maria G. Xanthou

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Maria G. Xanthou FHEA, of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies to join members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion on: “Killing with words: Isocrates, Dio Chrysostom, and Libanius on how to commit character assassination with style.” As Monty Python’s sketch Argument Clinic illustrates, abusive discourse (psogos, loidōria, mempsis) lies at the heart of oratory and rhetorical education. Abuse informs the… Read more

Ambrosia and Nectar: Where? What? When?

Hebe serving her father [Zeus] nectar Ivory-armed Hera smiled at this, and as she smiled she took the cup from her son’s hands. Then Hephaistos drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud approval,[1] According to mythology ambrosia is a food of the gods, thus named because it is ‘a-brotos,’ not for… Read more