Iliad

Announcements

India and Greece: Four Comparative Approaches

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies has announced the publication of Classics@12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece. This online volume contains papers comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece. The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with the Embassy of India. “India and Greece, four comparative approaches: An evening of conversation with four scholars”… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad with Laura Slatkin

Our community was pleased to welcome Laura Slatkin for an Open House discussion, which centered on tragic visualizing in the Iliad. You can watch the recording in the video frame below, or visit our YouTube channel. To prepare for this discussion, participants might like to read the following focus passages: Open House Laura Slatkin Focus Passages (PDF) Selected works mentioned during the discussion: Seemee Ali: Open House ‘Eros and Cosmos:… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Eros and Cosmos: Approaching the Golden Cloud of Iliad 14, with Seemee Ali

Our community was pleased to welcome Seemee Ali (Carthage College) for an Open House discussion. The conversation, entitled ‘Eros and Cosmos: Approaching the Golden Cloud of Iliad 14,’ focused on the great seduction scene of Hera and Zeus. To watch the recording, you can view in the video frame below, or visit our YouTube channel here. To prepare for this discussion, participants might like to read the following focus passages, provided… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Divine Yet Human Epics, with Shubha Pathak

Our community was pleased to welcome Professor Shubha Pathak (American University) for an Open House discussion held on Thursday, February 12, 2015. The lively session was recorded and is available for viewing below. While viewing this discussion, participants might like to read the following focus passages in the handout below (taken from Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India by Shubha Pathak). Focus Passages… Read more

Word Study

Journey’s End

~A guest post by Jacqui Donlon and the Oinops Study Group~     “Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.” The Odyssey v  (George Chapman translation)[1] Dear friends, we started out on our journey with this quote (see “The Wine-dark Sea“), and… Read more