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Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark

We were pleased to welcome Caroline Stark of Howard University for an Open House. The title of the discussion was: The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy. The session was live-streamed and recorded. The event took place on Thursday, December 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Petrarch’s letter to Homer: Text on Project Gutenberg Aristophanes’ speech, from Plato Symposium, 189–193: Text… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | Winter 2020

There will be no Book Club in December, due to the holiday season, but we will resume in the new year when we will be reading ancient Greek and Roman texts with a focus on poetry. Here is a preview what is coming up: look out for announcements at the beginning of January, February, and March with details of the selections, links to free online versions, and the dates for… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Miriam Kamil

We were excited to welcome Miriam Kamil, a 5th year PhD candidate in classical philology at Harvard University, for an Open House. The topic of the discussion was: Ovid’s Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology: Metamorphoses 2.552–565, 708–832. The event was streamed live on Thursday, November 21 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. In preparation, you might like to read two articles at Classical Inquiries: A sampling of comments on… Read more

Gallery

Gallery | Trojan Women

The themes depicted in the myth of the fall of Troy inspired ancient Greek tragedies, such as the Trojan Women of Euripides, and other works by writers and dramatists of ancient Rome and of later periods. The subject has also inspired many artists from ancient times to the current day. The universal and powerful themes of the suffering of the most vulnerable—women, children, and the elderly—still have relevance and resonance.… Read more

Texts

Introducing Euripides Trojan Women

A “heroized” edition of the Trojan Women We are pleased to share in the Text Library a revised translation of the Trojan Women of Euripides that tracks Core Vocab words in the same way as the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation used in HeroesX.[1] This was the result of a community-driven collaborative “heroization” project. The group revised a translation to indicate each and every occurrence of a Heroes core vocabulary term… Read more