The Parthenon is part of our collective imagination as an exceptional monument. It is interesting to note that, according to Douglas Frame, the name Parthenon was officially given to it later. §3.44 In concrete form it was of course the Parthenon that displayed Athena parthénos most impressively to the city and to the world. Paradoxically this building, constructed between 447 and 432 BC, did not begin to be called the… Read more
The first to use the term, and to call himself a philosopher or lover of wisdom, was Pythagoras; for, said he, no man is wise, but a god alone. … All too quickly the study was called wisdom and its professor a sage, to denote his attainment of mental perfection; while the student who took it up was a philosopher or lover of wisdom. Sophists was another name for the… Read more
We were excited to welcome Julia L. Shear for an Open House entitled “Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens.” The event took place on Friday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Lysias 2, the Funeral Oration Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 2.34, description of the burial of the war-dead. You can… Read more
This time the Core Vocab word (mentioned in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (H24H)[1] and in the associated Sourcebook[2]) is makar [μάκαρ] ‘blessed; happy’. This has a similar meaning to olbios; Gregory Nagy explains in H24H 8.§44 that olbios has an everyday meaning when applied to mortals, “fortunate, wealthy, happy” and a specialized meaning when applied to the gods, “blessed”. But it can also be applied in a… Read more
We were excited to welcome Arti Mehta of Howard University for an Open House entitled “ A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa” The event took place on Friday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Act 3 of Kālidāsa’s Shakuntala: (translation by Arthur W Ryder) The Prologue, Act 1,… Read more