Temple of Hephaistos A guest post by Janet M. Ozsolak The Agora in Athens is one of the sites I visited as a part of the study-travel group in June 2016. The group was led by Gregory Nagy. Walking on the Panathenaic Way, seeing the Temple of Hephaistos, the water clock, the prison on the Marble-Workers Street and visiting the museum were some of the highlights for me. Agorā is… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Professor Deborah Beck of the University of Texas for an Open House discussion on “Similes and Storytelling in Homer’s Iliad.” You can watch the recording down below or on our YouTube channel. Deborah Beck shared these two focus passages: Homer Iliad 16.482–492 (translation by R. Lattimore) Two similes describe the Trojan fighter Sarpedon as he falls at the hands of Achilles’ companion Patroklos: [Sarpedon] fell,… Read more
A guest post by Sarah Scott This month I’ve chosen a word that represents something that sounds very appealing: hēsukhos ‘serene’; hēsukhiā ‘state of being hēsukhos’.[1] My guess was that the word would not be very frequent. Although not shown in the Sourcebook[2], I did find it in Iliad: Πηλεΐδης δ᾽ ὁρμήσατ᾽ Ἀγήνορος ἀντιθέοιο δεύτερος: οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔασεν Ἀπόλλων κῦδος ἀρέσθαι, ἀλλά μιν ἐξήρπαξε, κάλυψε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἠέρι πολλῇ, ἡσύχιον… Read more
A guest post by Safdar Mandviwala Only a month ago I perused the exquisite Parthenon marbles at the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, together with the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies study-group led by Professor Gregory Nagy. Arrayed to reflect the original placement of the marbles on the Parthenon Frieze[1], with the second floor of the museum oriented in perfect alignment with the aspect of the Parthenon, visible atop the… Read more
Dear fellow readers Our Book Club selection for September is from Deborah Beck Homeric Conversation, which you can find on the Center for Hellenic Studies website, here. We will all be reading the introduction, and then each of you can choose one other chapter to read, depending on your interest. You can start and continue the conversation in the forum, here, and we will be meeting via Google+ Hangout on… Read more