Yiannis Petropoulos

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Love Wishes, with Yiannis Petropoulos

We were pleased to welcome Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, for an Open House discussion on love wishes in Greek tradition. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or in the frame below. In preparation you might like to download the handout of focus passages (PDF): Ancient Greek Love Wishes Handout Members of the Kosmos Society can start and continue the discussion… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod, with Yiannis Petropoulos

We were pleased to welcome Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, to an Open House discussion on ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’. He introduces the topic: Liberally populating ancient Greek poetry, monsters cannot be taken for granted and should not be treated as preposterous irrelevancies. Their function, ‘meaning’, and the way in which Homer and other poets describe or fail to describe them are… Read more