A “heroized” edition of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes We are pleased to share a revised translation of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes 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 and to… Read more
We were pleased to welcome back Leonard Muellner, who introduces the features and plans for the CHS project entitled The Free First Thousand Years of Greek (FF1K). It forms part of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGL), which aims to bring together in machine-actionable form all the Classical Greek and Latin texts from antiquity up to the present, to include both ancient and Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek texts, papyri, and… Read more
In a dialogue of Plato, Ion, the character Ion is a famous rhapsode. He is just coming back from a famous festival in Epidaurus where he performed Homeric poetry. [1] Plato’s dialogue dates from the late 5th century BCE [2], but it is not easy to find specific information about rhapsodes from the archaic period. The word rhapsōdos [ῥαψῳδός] itself is not used in Homeric or Hesiodic poetry. The word used… Read more
We were pleased to welcome back Keith Stone, CHS Fellow, as guest for a discussion about the textual development of the biblical book of Deuteronomy. This took place on Thursday, October 18th, at 11 a.m. EDT, and was recorded. He introduces the topic as follows: In most understandings of the textual development of the biblical book of Deuteronomy, the Song of Moses (32:1–43) is considered to be a late addition,… Read more
In the gloss provided by Gregory Nagy in H24H[1] and the associated Sourcebook[1], mēnis is summarized as “superhuman anger, cosmic sanction”. Following the Kosmos Society Book Club discussion about Leonard Muellner’s The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (available online at CHS)[3], we became interested in finding out how the word was used in other texts, so it seems appropriate to choose this for the next Core Vocab discussion. Muellner… Read more