We were pleased to welcome Armand D’Angour, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford, for a discussion about Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. The event took place on Thursday, February 14 2019 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. Focus passages for this discussion are available in this PDF handout: Socrates in Love Passages and… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou for an Open House discussion on Metus hostilis: rhetorical configurations of fear in 4th century BCE rhetoric, focusing on Isocrates and Demosthenes. The event was streamed live on Thursday, January 31st 2019 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. To prepare for the event, you might like to read the focus passages in this PDF handout: Xanthou Open House Fear Appeals… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Eleni Hasaki, Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology and Department of Religious Studies and Classics of University of Arizona and Diane Harris Cline Associate Professor of History of George Washington University for a discussion on The Social Networks of Athenian Potters. The event was recorded. You can watch the event on our YouTube channel or in the frame below. For further videos please visit… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Gloria F. Pinney, Professor Emerita of Classical Archaeology and Art at Harvard University, for a discussion on ‘The Legacy of Minos’. The event was at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 13, and was recorded. Before the event you might like to read the focus passages in this PDF handout: Kosmos Handout – Legacy of Minos – Gloria F Pinney You can watch the event… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Heleni Palaiologou, an archaeologist, retired from the Ministry of Culture of Greece, for a discussion about burials from the late Bronze Age at Mycenae, and what they tell us. The event took place on Thursday, November 29, at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. In preparation you might like to read the description of Mycenae in Pausanias 2.16.1–2.16.7. You can watch the event on our… Read more