“A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD” Onassis Cultural Center New York Onassis Foundation USA, 645 5th Ave., New York Through June 24, 2017 A guest post by David A. Beardsley Much of my own ongoing fascination with the ancient Greeks is in that theirs is the first culture with which I can readily connect, and this is largely because of the way they display their emotions. The… Read more
We were pleased to welcome back Douglas Frame, Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies for an Open House event on April 20 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. You may like to read Odyssey Book 13.1–375 for this event. You can watch the recording in the frame below or on our You Tube channel. Mentioned in the discussion: Malkin, Irad. 1998. The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity. University of California… Read more
The April Book Club selection features Xenophon’s Apology of Socrates. Join in by reading this month’s Book Club selection, a short text by Xenophon about Socrates. The hangout discussion will be on Tuesday, April 25 at 11 a.m. EDT. It might be interesting to compare Xenophon’s view with Plato’s, who also wrote an Apology of Socrates (which you can find in the Sourcebook.) You can read any translation you like.… Read more
On April 13 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, Kosmos Society welcomed back Dr. Maria G. Xanthou of Leeds University to an Open House discussion on Herodotus’s Histories, Book 1. Our focus was on gold, kraters and treasur(i)es. These are the Focus passages (PDF) handout You can watch the event below or on our You Tube channel . For further videos please visit the Watch page. Maria G. Xanthou Maria G. Xanthou (PhD… Read more
An evolving, collaborative commentary based on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord The intellectual goal of the original editors is simple and at the same time most ambitious: of all existing commentaries on Homeric poetry, this project is the first and only such commentary that is based squarely on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and his student, Albert Lord, who created a new way of thinking… Read more