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Homeric and Epic poetry

Epic themes

• Homeric poetry, multitextuality, and jazz, with Graeme Bird
• Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife, with Joel Christensen
• Beautiful Bodies or Beautiful Minds: Disability Studies in Homer, with Joel Christensen
• Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts, with Joel Christensen
• Epic Narrative and Toxic Heroism, with Joel Christensen
• epaineîn and the Poetics of Consent in Homer, with David Elmer
• Indo-European Epic Poetry, with Kevin McGrath
• Muthos, Mythology, and the Language of Heroes, with Richard P. Martin
• Homeric Questions: Interview with Leonard Muellner
• Oral Poetics & Composition-in-Performance, with Gregory Nagy and Guests
• Conversation with Kosmos Society (Hour 25), with Gregory Nagy and Douglas Frame
• Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India, with Shubha Pathak
• Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod, with Yiannis Petropoulos
• The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
• Equine Poetics, with Ryan Platte
• The Lives of Homer as Aetiologies for Homeric Poetry, with Gregory Nagy

Iliad

• Similes and Storytelling in Homer’s Iliad, with Deborah Beck
• “And Then an Amazon Came”: Homeric Papyri, with Casey Dué
• Nestor and Indo-European Twin Myths, with Douglas Frame
• ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles, with Douglas Frame
• ‘The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, with Casey Dué
• Recall Strategies in the Iliad, with Lynn Kozac
• Whose plan is this? Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and the Odyssey, with Efimia D. Karakantza and Justin Arft
• Charioteers and Charioteering in the Iliad and Mahābhārata, with Kevin McGrath
• ‘Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad, with Laura Slatkin
• Iliad 6: Violence and War Crimes, with Joel Christensen
• Iliad IX, and the Responses of Achilles, with Leonard Muellner
• Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush, with Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott (audio only)
• Eros and Cosmos: Approaching the Golden Cloud of Iliad 14, with Seemee Ali
• Achilles and Aeneas ‘beyond fate’: An exploration of Iliad 20 and the Multiformity of the Iliad, with Casey Dué

Odyssey

• The Odyssey, “Breaking Bad,” and Problematic Endings, with Joel Christensen
• The Children of Odysseus, and Multiformity, with Joel Christensen
• On the Odyssey, Kingship, and Nestor, with Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame and Leonard Muellner
• Nostos, names, and the younger generation of heroes, with Gregory Nagy (transcript only)
• Odyssey or the Return of a Song, with Ioanna Papadopoulou
• The narrative form of the Odyssey, with Kevin McGrath
• Penelope & Weaving, with Olga Levaniouk
• Dialogue: Ancient Greek Brides, Death, and Exchange, with Olga Levaniouk
• The Dreams of Barchin and Penelope, with Olga Levaniouk
• The relevance of Odysseus’ words about kingship in Odyssey 8, with Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame
• Exchanges in the Odyssey‘s Underworld, with Nancy Felson, Laura Slatkin, and Maša Ćulumović
• Odysseus and the Poetics of katábasis, with Stamatia Dova
• Confessions of murder in the Odyssey, with Eunice Kim
• Gift of tripods in Odyssey 13, with Douglas Frame

See also “Homeric Greek: Odyssey“.

Epic Cycle and Homeric Hymns

• Comparative Mythology and Folktale Studies: Kore, Demeter, Baldr, and the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”, with Riccardo Ginevra, University of Cologne
• A Cyclic Odysseus is a Dead Odysseus: Homer and the Epic Cycle on (Mis)Recognition, with Justin Arft
• Continued conversation on Within the Kyklos: ‘Whose plan is this?‘ Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and the Odyssey with Justin Arft
• Interview: Cartoons, Homeric Hymns, and Drawing as a Daily Ritual, with Glynnis Fawkes

Other Greek Poetry

• Pindar’s Poetics of Homecoming, with Maša Ćulumović
• Musical Heroes: A Discussion of Pindar’s Pythian 12, with Maša Ćulumović
• Sappho 44, with Gregory Nagy
• Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: experiments in comparative reception theory, with Gregory Nagy
• Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe, with Maria G. Xanthou
• Pindar, with Maria G. Xanthou
• The Muse(s)’s “white noise”: the background of sound-scape and the gustatory acoustics of Pindar’s epinician odes, with Maria G. Xanthou
• The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
• Equine Poetics, with Ryan Platte
• Hellenistic poeti vaganti , with Angela Cinalli
• What’s a kômos song?, with Richard P. Martin
• Apollonius’ Argonautica: Earth, Sky, and Sea, with Jackie Murray

Tragedy and Comedy

• Choral Performance and Civic Virtues, with James Collins
• A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa, with Arti Mehta
• Euripides’ Erechtheus in context, with Lucia Athanassaki
• Dionysus versus Pentheus, with Robert Garland
• Fragments of Menander and the Modern Stage, with Kyriaki Ioannidou
• The Hippolytus of Euripides, with Rebecca Futo Kennedy 
• Wives of Returning Veterans in Classical Athenian Drama, with Erika Weiberg
• Heroine cult and tragedy, with special reference to the Medea of Euripides, with Richard P. Martin
• Herakles and The Best of the Achaeans, with Gregory Nagy
• Hēraklēs: Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology, with Gregory Nagy
• The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today, with Paul O’Mahony
• Zeus in Comedy, with Jeffrey S Rusten

See also “Reading Greek Tragedy Online”

Student performances:

• Antigone 441–581 (performed by Greek and US students)
• Antigone 1–161 (Gloucester High School, Massachussetts, USA); 155–331 (1st and 2nd High Schools, Nafplio, Greece); 441–582 (Lynn English High School, Massachussetts, USA); 577–800 (Modern High School for Girls, Kolkota, India); 801–943 (Trinitas Gymnasium, Almere, Netherlands); and
  “Ode to Man,” 334–383, performed by four of the groups
• Antigone 997–1114 (Ukraine)

History

• Experimental Archaeology of Ancient Greek Warfare, with Paul Bardunias, Christian Cameron, Giannis Kadoglou
• Theognis, earwax and the end of the Lelantine War, with Natasha Bershadsky
• A Middle Ground in the Middle Sea: the “Marriage” of Salmakis and Halikarnassos, with Mat Carbon
• Sparta and its continuing myth, with Paul Cartledge
• Thebes: The lost city of ancient Greece, with Paul Catrtledge
• Disease and Social Order: The Plague Narratives of Thucydides and Lucretius, with Rob Cioffi
• Uncanny Intruders: Ghosts and Greek Literature, with Rob Cioffi
• Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour
• Immigration and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in 4th-Century BCE Athens, with Denise Demetriou
• Technolarynges and the Production of artificial voice in Antiquity, with Maria Gerolemou
• The Social Networks of Athenian Potters, with Eleni Hasaki and Diane Harris Cline
• Herodotus, with Alexander J. Hollmann
• The End of the Histories, with Scarlett Kingsley and Timothy Rood
• Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue and its Reception, with Ivan Matijašić
• The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire, with Lindsey Mazurek
• A French Book on Ancient Greek Diseases and Thoughts about Translating it into English, with Leonard Muellner
• The Arrhēphoroi as understood by Pausanias, with Gregory Nagy
• Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, with Gregory Nagy
• Crossing the Sea: Migration in the Ancient World, with Paul O’Mahony
• Late Bronze Age burials at Mycenae, and what they tell us, with Heleni Palaiologou
• Waste in antiquity, with Dan-el Padilla Peralta
• Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: : Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design, with Rachele Pierini
• The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
• Themis, thesmos and nomos: are there “divine laws” in ancient Greece?, with Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
• Heroism, Charisma, and Legitimate Rule: A Dialogue with Max Weber, with Nicolas Prevelakis
• Thucydides on Early Greece and the Trojan War, with Jeffrey S Rusten
• Xenophon, Agamemnon, and Leadership, with Norman Sandridge
• Deaths of ancient leaders, with Norman Sandridge
• Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens, with Julia L. Shear
• Gold, kraters, and treasur(i)es in Herodotus Histories Book 1, with Maria G. Xanthou
• High and low: Xerxes’ desire of Thessalian heights and Tempe gorge, with Maria G. Xanthou
• Chalcidian regionality between Sithonia and Pallene: from periphery to epichoric identity, with Maria G. Xanthou
• Metus hostilis and fear appeals in 4th c. BCE rhetoric, with Maria G. Xanthou

Philosophy

• Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour
• How and Why to Read Plato in the Early Common Era, with Ryan Fowler
• Re-Re-Counting Plato: This Time with More Data, with Thomas Köntges
• Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Role of Byzantine Scholarship in the Preservation of Platonic and Neo-Platonic Thought, with Brian Prescott-Decie
• A New Translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, with Susan Sauvé Meyer
• The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark

Other Greek texts

• Euclid saves us from ignorance, with Graeme Bird
• ‘Hammering a Nail with a Nail’: Reading Collections of Ancient Greek Proverbs, with Joel Christensen
• Magical Strategies for Everyday Problems, with Suzanne Lye
• Aesop and Fables, with Arti Mehta
• Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, with Gregory Nagy
• Love wishes, with Yiannis Petropoulos
• Teaching and Learning the Greek Classics in Prison, with Laura M. Slatkin
• The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark

Texts and traditions from related languages and cultures

• Making Connections: Exploring Beowulf, with Graeme Bird
• From Homer to Ferdowsi, with Olga M. Davidson
• Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament, with Olga M. Davidson
• Nestor and Indo-European Twin Myths, with Douglas Frame
• Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles, with Douglas Frame
• Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin
• Living Traditions of Vedic Ritual and Recitation in India, with Finnian Moore Gerety
• The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 2.552–565, 708–832, with Miriam Kamil
• Charioteers and Charioteering in the Iliad and Mahābhārata, with Kevin McGrath
• Indo-European Epic Poetry, with Kevin McGrath
• A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa, with Arti Mehta
• The Táin, with Richard P. Martin
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Leonard Muellner
• From Homer to Virgil, with Gregory Nagy
• Aeneid 4–6, with Gregory Nagy
• The poetry of Horace, with Gregory Nagy
• Hēraklēs: Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology, with Gregory Nagy
• A Hero Named Heather and Other Peculiarities in the Early Medieval Irish Saga The Cattle-Raid of Fraech, with Joseph F. Nagy
• Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India, with Shubha Pathak
• Dialogue of the deaf: puppeteers vs. interviewers on oral history and historical data, with Anna Stavrakopoulou
• Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone
• Song of Moses, Song of Deuteronomy, with Keith Stone
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Search for Everlasting Life, with Jacqueline Vayntrub
• Oral tradition as rhetorical resource in the Old Slavic translation of Digenis Akritis, with Robert Romanchuk

Music and visual arts

• Musical Heroes: A Discussion of Pindar’s Pythian 12, with Maša Ćulumović
• Performing Ancient Greek Lyric and Music, with Bettina Joy de Guzman
• Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin
• Living Traditions of Vedic Ritual and Recitation in India, with Finnian Moore Gerety
• Performance Traditions in Greece, with Panayotis Fragkiskos League
• Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece, with Tim Power
• The Social Networks of Athenian Potters, with Diane Harris Cline and Eleni Hasaki
• Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design, with Rachele Pierini
• Weaver as a Hero, with Susan Edmunds
• Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C, with Kathryn R. Topper
• The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire, with Lindsey Mazurek
• Silver and Stone: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey, with Andrew Szegedy-Maszak

Digital research, and teaching

• Can the Digital Humanities Make Us Better Humanists? with Rodney Ast
• Classics, Geography and Computing: Interview, with Elton Barker
• Finding Beauty in the Smallest Words: Ancient Greek Particles and Particle Clusters, with Anna Bonifazi
• Teaching Greek in the 21st Century, with Gregory Crane and Farnoosh Shamsian
• Building Digital Classical Imagination, with Luke Hollis
• A Land Called Crete: From Harriet Boyd Hawes to the Cretan Collections Project, with Andrew Koh
• Re-Re-Counting Plato: This Time with More Data, with Thomas Köntges
• The Free First Thousand Years of Greek, with Leonard Muellner
• Discovering Ancient Documents with Digital Mapping Tools, with Chiara Palladino
• The Lexeis project: The great Greek author-lexica of the 19th century, with Jeffrey Rusten
• Teaching and Learning the Greek Classics in Prison, with Laura Slatkin