Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire, with Lindsey Mazurek

We were excited to welcome Lindsey Maruzek for an Open House entitled “The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire.” The event took place on Friday, February 11 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You might like to read the following passages in connection with the event: Mazurek_talk_Isis aretalogies You can watch on our YouTube channel, or in the frame… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Greek Language, Italian Landscape, with Manuela Pellegrino

We were excited to welcome Manuela Pellegrino for an Open House entitled “Greek Language, Italian Landscape.” The event took place on Friday, December 3 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read Chapter 6, “Certain Things Never Change and Those Sound Better in Griko” from her book Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority You… Read more

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Open House | The Aeschylean ‘’Odyssey’’: A Journey in Fragments, with Zoe A. Kalamara

We were excited to welcome Zoe A. Kalamara for an Online Open House entitled “The Aeschylean “Odyssey”: A Journey in Fragments.” The event took place on Friday, November 12 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Odyssey, Book 11 and Books 20–24, and the fragments in this PDF handout: Kosmos-Open-House_2021-11-12 You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel… Read more

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Open House | Georgios Gemistos Plethon, with Brian Prescott-Decie

We were excited to welcome Brian Prescott-Decie for an  Open House entitled “Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Role of Byzantine Scholarship in the Preservation of Platonic and Neo-Platonic Thought.” The event took place on Friday, October 15 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read the passages in this PDF: Texts for Plethon discussion You can watch the recording on our… Read more

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Open House | Teaching Greek in the 21st Century, with Gregory Crane and Farnoosh Shamsian

We were excited to welcome Gregory Crane and Farnoosh Shamsian for an Open House entitled “Teaching Greek in the 21st Century.” The event took place on Friday, October 1, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. You can watch the video on our YouTube channel, or in the frame below. From the discussion: https://beyond-translation.perseus.org https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ https://scaife.perseus.org For further videos please visit the Watch page. Gregory Crane Gregory Crane is… Read more