Last time we looked at food and drink for health and well-being. This time we look at less salubrious examples of eating and drinking, many of which have disastrous consequences. Kronos, having usurped his own father, did not want the same thing to happen to him. Rhea too, embraced by Kronos, bore renowned children, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera of-the-golden-sandals, 455 and mighty Hādēs, who inhabits halls beneath the earth, having… Read more
We were excited to welcome Rodney Ast for an Open House entitled “Can the Digital Humanities Make Us Better Humanists?” The event took place on Friday, March 11 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You may find it useful to create an account at papyri.info in order to be able to explore the site and to look at the following two example texts: https://papyri.info/ddbdp/ddbdp;2015;2 https://papyri.info/ddbdp/o.oslo;;2 To get ready for… Read more
How, then, shall I sing of you who in all ways are a worthy theme of song? For everywhere, O Phoebus, the whole range of song is fallen to you, both over the mainland that rears heifers and over the isles. All mountain-peaks and high headlands of lofty hills and rivers flowing out to the deep and beaches sloping seawards and havens of the sea are your delight. Homeric Hymn… Read more
Who really is Achilles? Is he just the son of lovely-haired Thetis who lets him be raised by Cheiron the Centaur, but comes to console and help him when he is devastated and even tried to hide him at the court of the King Lycomedes so that Achilles would not fight at Troy. Is he just an angry and violent young man with a rage that goes beyond reason? Is… Read more
We were excited to welcome Jackie Murray for an Open House entitled “Apollonius’ Argonautica: Earth, Sky, and Sea.” The event took place on Friday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read Book 1 and Book 2 of the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. Translation by R.C. Seaton at Project Gutenberg to read online or download (also available… Read more