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Looking back on 2016!

In 2016, Hour 25—soon to be renamed the Kosmos Society—had an exciting year. There were new programs, new community-organized groups and many interesting guests for the ongoing CHS Open House discussions. We extended our horizons beyond ancient Greece to include traditions related linguistically, geographically, and culturally with themes from Epic of Gilgamesh, Shāhnāma, Beowulf, the Táin and Celtic mythology, along with readings from Thucydides, Hesiod, Aesop, and Herodotus. We will continue to… Read more

Announcements

Le Héros Grec en 24 Heures

  La Vie des Classiques vous offre la possibilité de retrouver l’intégralité des vidéos sous-titrées en français du MOOC de Harvard: Le Héros Grec en 24 Heures. Le professeur Gregory Nagy enseigne à Harvard. Au cours de ce projet, vous allez explorer avec lui plus de 250 textes des plus grands chefs-d’oeuvre de la littérature grecque.   The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours La Vie des Classiques is offering… Read more

Video

The Lives of Homer as Aetiologies for Homeric Poetry

This video recording was originally shown at an international conference held at Baku, November 27–28, 2015. In this video Professor Gregory Nagy explores the myths relating to The Lives of Homer. “This inquiry centers on the surviving texts of ‘Life of Homerʼ narrative traditions, to which I refer simply as Lives of Homer. These Lives, I argue, can be read as sources of historical information about the reception of Homeric poetry.… Read more

Travel

Walk around New York City with ancient gods!

A guest post by Bill Moulton On a recent trip to New York, I discovered representations of the ancient Greek gods, some in unexpected places, and couldn’t resist photographing them! I spotted what appear to be the Muses reigning over the Great Dionysia where all the famous Ancient Greek tragedies were performed—more specifically in this case the Radio City Music Hall and its Christmas Spectacular. Hildreth Meière: Drama, 1932 Here… Read more

Video

CHS Dialogues | The Song of Moses, The Shield of Achilles, and ox-vision Hera

In this episode, “The Song of Moses, The Shield of Achilles, and ox-vision Hera,” Gregory Nagy and Keith Stone discuss: A new book by Keith Stone: Singing Moses’s Song: A Performance-Critical Analysis of Deuteronomy’s Song of Moses  The Shield of Achilles in Iliad 18 and in myths about the life of Homer The meaning of epithets associated with Hera and Athena, which are sometimes translated into English as “ox-eyed’/’owl-eyed’, or better… Read more