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Visiting Scholars

Open House | Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: experiments in comparative reception theory, with Gregory Nagy

We were excited to welcome back Gregory Nagy of Harvard University, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. The topic of the discussion was “Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: experiments in comparative reception theory.” The event was streamed live on Thursday, March 14, 2019, and was recorded. In preparation, you… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | March 2019: Xenophon Memorabilia

[Socrates] said that he often heard it stated that of all possessions the most precious is a good and sincere friend. “And yet,” he said, “there is no transaction most men are so careless about as the acquisition of friends. For I find that they are careful about getting houses and lands and slaves and cattle and furniture, and anxious to keep what they have; but though they tell one… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Building Digital Classical Imagination, with Luke Hollis

We were pleased to welcome Luke Hollis for an Open House discussion about digital classical imagination. The event took place on Thursday, February 28 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You might like to consider the following before the event: Find a classical text or artifact in a digital archive online (one such archive, among many others, is the Acropolis Museum at Google Arts and Culture). How does the digital… Read more

Word Study

Core Vocab: ainos, ainigma

This time our Core Vocab exploration, taken from terms listed in H24H[1] and tracked in the associated Sourcebook[2], is about ainos [αἶνος] ‘authoritative utterance for and by a social group; praise; fable’; and the related word ainigma [αἴνιγμα] ‘riddle’. In H24H 2§60, Gregory Nagy says: Here is my working definition of this word: an ainos is a performance of ambivalent wording that becomes clarified once it is correctly understood and then… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour

We were pleased to welcome Armand D’Angour, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford, for a discussion about Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. The event took place on Thursday, February 14 2019 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. Focus passages for this discussion are available in this PDF handout: Socrates in Love Passages and… Read more