Lunch & Learn with Aldo Bottino Time, Tripods, Textiles and Trees:Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey• Free Online Event • Wednesday, April 15, 2026 • 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET • Online via Zoom Register Now! You’re invited! The New Alexandria Foundation is hosting a lively Lunch & Learn with Aldo Bottino, author of Time, Tripods, Textiles and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey. Join us for… Read more
Lunch & Learn with Aisha Dad Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali• Free Online Event • Thursday, March 26, 2026 • 12:30–1:30 p.m. ET • Online via Zoom Register Now! Join the New Alexandria Foundation for a lively conversation with Aisha Dad, author of Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali. In this session, Dad explores how Anarkali’s narrative lives through performance and re-performance across architecture, travel… Read more
The Odyssey with Bruce King 4-Week Online Seminar offered by the New Alexandria Foundation Saturdays 1:00-4:00 pm ET (with breaks) 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25 Register Now! From the smoking ruins of Troy to the long-awaited homecoming in Ithaka, Odysseus leaves a wake of death, sorrow, and reinvention. As a hero and trickster, he slips in and out of identities—king, husband, father, son, stranger, storyteller. Wherever Odysseus goes, trouble follows, for… Read more
We are delighted to share a series of Office Hours video discussions with Professor Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In these videos, the ordeals of becoming a hero are explored through the greatest works of Ancient Greek literature. In these ‘Ancient Greek Heroes’ Office Hours videos, Gregory Nagy and his colleagues provide additional explanations about the content and… Read more
We are delighted to share a series of Office Hours video discussions originally recorded during HeroesX—the MOOC ‘The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours’ (H24H). This MOOC project was first launched in 2013 with Professor Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, based on his long-running Harvard course at Harvard College and the associated course at Harvard Extension School, and… Read more