Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Muse(s)’s “white noise”, sympotic calm, and the taste of sound, with Maria G. Xanthou

We were excited to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou for an Open House. The full title of the discussion is “The Muse(s)’s “white noise”, sympotic calm, and the taste of sound: the background of sound-scape and the gustatory acoustics of Pindar’s epinician odes.” The event took place on Thursday, February 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST. It was live-streamed and recorded. In preparation, you might like to read this handout (PDF)… Read more

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Open House | Confessions of Murder in the Odyssey, with Eunice Kim

We were excited to welcome Eunice Kim of Furman University for an Open House. The title of the discussion is: ‘Confessions of Murder in the Odyssey’. The session was live-streamed and recorded. The event took place on Thursday, February 6 at 11:00 a.m. EST. In preparation for this event, you might like to read the following passages: Iliad 24.480–484 Odyssey 13.256–286 Odyssey 14.378–385 Odyssey 15.221–278 Odyssey 22.27–59 Odyssey 23.113–122 Odyssey 24.… Read more

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Open House | Exploring the relevance of Odysseus’s words about kingship, with Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame

We were excited to welcome Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame for an Open House. The title of the discussion is: ‘An exploration of the relevance of Odysseus’s words about kingship in Odyssey 8 to the Ionian setting of Homeric poetry’.  The event was live-streamed on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read this article: An… Read more

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Open House | The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark

We were pleased to welcome Caroline Stark of Howard University for an Open House. The title of the discussion was: The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy. The session was live-streamed and recorded. The event took place on Thursday, December 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Petrarch’s letter to Homer: Text on Project Gutenberg Aristophanes’ speech, from Plato Symposium, 189–193: Text… Read more

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Open House | The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Miriam Kamil

We were excited to welcome Miriam Kamil, a 5th year PhD candidate in classical philology at Harvard University, for an Open House. The topic of the discussion was: Ovid’s Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology: Metamorphoses 2.552–565, 708–832. The event was streamed live on Thursday, November 21 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. In preparation, you might like to read two articles at Classical Inquiries: A sampling of comments on… Read more