Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Lesbian Prayer: Tradition and Innovation in Sappho with Professor Mary Bachvarova

We were delighted to welcome Professor Mary Bachvarova, Director of the First Year Experience, Lindsay and Corinne Stewart Professor in the Humanities, Classical Studies, Willamette University, who joined members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion titled “Lesbian Prayer : Tradition and Innovation in Sappho.” In this talk Prof. Bachvarova uses Homeric and Near Eastern prayer to illustrate how Sappho innovates on her inherited Lesbian tradition of prayer.… Read more

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Open House | Linked Open Data for the Graeco-Roman World with Dr. Monica Berti

We were delighted to welcome Dr. Monica Berti, of Leipzig University, who joined members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion on the principles and recommendations of the so called “Linked Open Data” (LOD) to share and reuse data across the web. The focus was on the use of LOD in the field of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Examples were taken from the project “Linked Ancient Greek and Latin” (LAGL), which… Read more

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Open House | Killing With Words: Character Assassination with Style, with Dr. Maria G. Xanthou

We were delighted to welcome Dr. Maria G. Xanthou FHEA, of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, to join members of the Kosmos Society for this recorded Open House discussion on: “Killing with words: Isocrates, Dio Chrysostom, and Libanius on how to commit character assassination with style.” (see below for the video). She introduces the topic as follows: As Monty Python’s sketch Argument Clinic illustrates, abusive discourse (psogos, loidōria, mempsis)… Read more

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Open House | Iliad 6 “War Crimes” with Joel Christensen

We were delighted to welcome back Professor Joel Christensen, of Brandeis University, to join members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion on “Violence and War Crimes in Iliad 6.” As Professor Christensen writes in his Substack post noted below: The story of excessive violence in the Iliad is that of the rejection of conventions meant to make war in some way predictable and ‘acceptable’ to the combatants.… Read more

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Open House | Thebes, with Paul Cartledge

We are delighted to welcome Paul Cartledge, of Clare College, University of Cambridge, to join members of the Kosmos Society for an Open House discussion on ‘Thebes: the lost city of ancient Greece’ Thebes, the third largest city in ancient Greece, is often considered a backwater, lacking culture and art. In fact, Thebes was the site of many important Greek myths, including Oedipus and The Seven Against Thebes, as well… Read more