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
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
We were excited to welcome Rebecca Futo Kennedy for an Open House entitled “The Hippolytus of Euripides.” The event took place on Friday, May 14 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event you might like to read Euripides, Hippolytus You can watch the event on our YouTube channel or in the frame below. For further videos please visit the Watch page. Rebecca Futo Kennedy… Read more
We were excited to welcome Vinciane Pirenne for an Open House entitled “Themis, thesmos, and nomos: are there “divine laws” in ancient Greece?” The event took place on Friday, April 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. In connection with this discussion, you might like to read: Hesiod, Theogony, 392–396, 901–906 Solon, Solon fragments Aeschylus, Eumenides, 169–172, 389–396, 483–484, 570–579, 614–615, 681–693, 778–779. Xenophon Cyropedia 1.6.6 You can watch… Read more
We were excited to welcome Jan-Mathieu (Mat) Carbon for an Open House entitled “A Middle Ground in the Middle Sea: the “Marriage” of Salmakis and Halikarnassos.” The event took place on Friday, April 16 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. He provides this overview of the topic: A—literary, archeological, epigraphical—survey of the city of Halikarnassos can help us to understand how the identity of this multicultural community was constructed.… Read more