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Visiting Scholars

Open House | Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone

We were pleased to welcome Keith Stone for an Open House discussion on Deuteronomy 32 in Performance. You can watch the discussion on the screen below, or on our YouTube channel. You may like to read following passages in connection with the discussion: Deuteronomy 31.9–32.47 Psalm 24 Gregory Nagy, 1996, Poetry as Performance, 60–61 For further videos please visit the Watch page. Keith Stone Keith Stone earned his PhD in 2013,… Read more

Word Study

Core Vocab: kerdos, kerdea

A guest post by Sarah Scott This month’s Core Vocab word—from Gregory Nagy’s book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours[1]—is kerdos [κέρδος], plural kerdea [κέρδεα] which he glosses as ‘gain, profit; desire for gain; craft employed for gain; craftiness; craft’. I wondered in what contexts the word might occur—and whether the ancient Greeks saw it as a positive or negative attribute, or something in between. Here are a few… Read more

Topic for Discussion

How HeroesX Will Change Your Life—If You Let It

A guest post by Elizabeth Howell I’m a science journalist by training and trade. In April 2016, I realized I had spent more than a decade working at my career, to the point where I forgot to have unrelated hobbies. So I stepped back from a few obligations and plunged myself into lifelong learning through my local library and online courses. This led me to reviving an old university interest… Read more

Announcements

An Interview with Artist Maria Zoie Lafis

Detail from “Women in Procession,” by M. Zoie Lafis Kleos@CHS recently published an interview with M. Zoie Lafis, the Administrative Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and an accomplished artist who draws on classical themes in her work. Lafis’ paintings have been featured as the cover image for several CHS books. In this most recent interview, Lafis describes the inspiration for creating Women in Procession (detail above), which appears on… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Ovid, with Leonard Muellner

We welcomed Leonard Muellner, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University, who helped us to start thinking about Latin texts and Roman authors with a focus on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The discussion was recorded. You can watch the recording in the embedded frame below, or our YouTube channel. You may like to read the following focus passages on Perseus. Book 1.89–150 Book 1. 452–524 Book 1. 525–566 Here are two… Read more