We were pleased to welcome Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, for an Open House discussion on love wishes in Greek tradition. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or in the frame below. In preparation you might like to download the handout of focus passages (PDF): Ancient Greek Love Wishes Handout Members of the Kosmos Society can start and continue the discussion… Read more
Our next Book Club selection is from Lucian, whose satirical dialogues poked fun at philosophers and mythological characters. We will be reading The Dialogues of the Dead; here are a selection of translations available free online: Translation by H.W. & F.G. Fowler: Online at theoi.com or Online at sacred-texts.com Translation by William Tooke: Dialogues of the Dead starts at (printed) page 191 Online at archive.org Translation by Howard Williams: Dialogues of the… Read more
Departure of Ulysses from the Land of the Phaeacians, Louvre Museum Douglas Frame attended a conference hosted by the Center for Odyssean Studies in August of 2017. The topic of his presentation was the “homecoming” of Odysseus, concentrating on “nostos as taking place in a wholly imaginary world.” The notion of a nostos as a “return to life” is deeply imbedded in the Odyssey. I have traced its origins to… Read more
On January 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST, Kosmos Society welcomed back Dr. Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, to an Open House discussion on Xerxes’ desire of Thessalian heights and Tempe gorge. These are the focus passages (PDF handout): Xanthou-OpenHouse25012018Handout You can watch the event below or on our YouTube channel. For further videos please visit the Watch page. Maria G. Xanthou Dr Maria-Elizabeth G. Xanthou (PhD Aristotle University of… Read more
In the previous posts in this series we looked at descriptions of hair for males and for females. This time we look at some examples of how hair features in ritual events as depicted in the texts. Ritual offering of hair Achilles and his companions cut their hair and offer it in commemoration at the funeral of Patroklos: In the midst of them his comrades bore Patroklos [135] and covered… Read more