Artist Glynnis Fawkes will visit Hour 25 on Thursday, February 6th from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. EST (Boston, MA) to discuss her work illustrating Homeric Hymns. This event will be held in the Project Chatroom. [Look up the time of this chat in your time zone.] We hope you will join this live session! If you can’t visit at the appointed time, please leave a question for Glynnis in the Forum. Glynnis Fawkes… Read more
On January 20, 2014 Gregory Nagy gave a public talk at the Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies. Several members of our community attended the event, and one even made an informal recording of the lecture. We are so pleased to share this participant-generated resource with the community. The text from this talk is now available here: Nagy:_Was there a future for the Phaeacians… Read more
Professor Olga Levaniouk visited Hour 25 on Thursday, January 16th in the live chatroom and then answered some questions on this topic thread in the Forum, our meeting space for visiting scholars. She visited the chatroom again the following day. Levaniouk is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. Her first book, Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19, uses the first dialogue between Penelope and… Read more
A guest post by Jacqui Donlon With the arrival of the New Year, our Hour 25 site was dressed up with a new look. Even in its cropped form, the beauty of the mosaic is evident; and there is a wonderful story behind this banner. It is a story of a masterpiece created, lost, then restored back to life. The portion that you see above is part of a triptych mosaic… Read more
We are pleased to announce that Professor Olga Levaniouk will visit Hour 25 during the second week of January. Levaniouk is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Washington and she has been a Mentor in the Discussion Board for the first and second sessions of HeroesX. Below is a brief bio as available on the University of Washington website. At the center of my research is Homer… Read more