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GREEK THEATRE PROGRAM Program Dates: June 2-June 30, 2023 Application Deadline: February 15, 2023 Locations: United Kingdom and Greece

An alternative ending to the Iliad reads "and then an Amazon came...". Achilles will fall in love with that Amazon—Penthesileia. Hector had married Andromache, who has an Amazonian name. And Herakles and Theseus fought Amazons. In this Gallery we will look at visual representations of Amazons.

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BADA | Theater Program

GREEK THEATRE PROGRAM Program Dates: June 2-June 30, 2023 Application Deadline: February 15, 2023 Locations: United Kingdom and Greece Read more

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Gallery | Amazons

Book Club

Book Club | January 2023: Seneca Thyestes

"I must dare some crime, atrocious, bloody, such as my brother would more wish were his." To start the new year we will be reading Seneca's tragedy Thyestes. We will also have a read-through of the play. Read more

Ancient Greek language

The language and style of Thucydides, with Jeffrey Rusten

Jeffrey Rusten, of Cornell University, provides some suggestions on how to analyze the language of Thucydides, sentence structure, patterns of contrast and comparison, phrases, and word order. He also demonstrates a method of visualizing the structure of a sentence through the use of layout. Read more

History, Texts

Introducing an augmented translation of Thucydides: Book 2

We are pleased to share a revised translation of selections from Book 2 of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War that tracks Key terms. These selections include Pericles' Funeral Oration, the plague in Athens, Pericles' last speech, and Thucydides' assessment of Pericles. Read more

Book Club

Book Club | Winter–Summer 2023

There is no Book Club reading or meeting for December, because of the holiday season, but here is a preview of what is coming up in the first part of 2023. Looking forward to further interesting discussions, comparing ideas and reactions, in the Forum and via Zoom—they are always enriching voyages of discovery! Read more

Visiting Scholars

Online Open House | Rockefeller Center and the Image of a Titan, with Jared Simard

We were excited to welcome Jared Simard of New York University for an Online In-house discussion entitled “Rockefeller Center and the Image of a Titan.” The event took place on Friday, December 2, at 11:00 a.m. EST. Read more

Topic for Discussion

Some Thoughts on Plutarch

In September 2022 the Kosmos Society Book Club read Plutarch’s Virtues of Women. We discussed the main themes: the fight for justice, defeating the oppressor, and Plutarch’s writing skills. However, there were some themes...that made me think of other similar stories, and made me want to do some further analysis. Read more

Visiting Scholars

Online Open House | Technolarynges and the Production of artificial voice in Antiquity, with Maria Gerolemou

We were excited to welcome Maria Gerolemou for an Online Open House entitled “Technolarynges and the Production of artificial voice in Antiquity.” The event took place on Friday, November 18 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. Read more

Topic for Discussion

Automatons

"There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason [noos], voice also and strength, [420] and all the learning of the immortals; these busied themselves as the king bade them" Read more

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BADA | Theater Program

Gallery | Amazons

Book Club | January 2023: Seneca Thyestes

The language and style of Thucydides, with Jeffrey Rusten

Introducing an augmented translation of Thucydides: Book 2

Book Club | Winter–Summer 2023

Online Open House | Rockefeller Center and the Image of a Titan, with Jared Simard

Some Thoughts on Plutarch

Online Open House | Technolarynges and the Production of artificial voice in Antiquity, with Maria Gerolemou

Automatons

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CHS Online Open House | Thucydides on Early Greece and the Trojan War, with Jeffrey Rusten

Online Open House | Disease and Social Order: The Plague Narratives of Thucydides and Lucretius, with Robert Cioffi

Gallery | Hēraklēs, part 1: the Labors

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