CHS Online Open House | The Social Networks of Athenian Potters, with Eleni Hasaki and Diane Harris Cline
We are pleased to welcome Eleni Hasaki, Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology and Department of Religious Studies and Classics of University of Arizona and Diane Harris Cline Associate Professor of History of George Washington University for a discussion on the ancient Greek pottery. The event will be at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, January 17, and will be recorded. Read more…
Book Club | January 2019: Plautus Rudens
To make a light-hearted start to the new year, this month’s Book Club selection is a Roman comedy by Plautus, Rudens, “the Rope”.
As usual, the conversation will start and continue in the Forum, with Google Hangouts on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. EST. Read more…
Reading Homer aloud: pronunciation, rhythm, enjambments
In this video Gregory Nagy, Leonard Muellner, and Douglas Frame discuss reading Homer aloud: pronunciation and its changes through time; pausing at enjambments; mastering the rhythm by memorizing passages; fixed metrical patterns; rhythm built into the language; predictability of ends of hexameter lines. Read more…
Annual Round -Up | 2018
Welcome to this round-up of highlights from the content, community, and conversation at Kosmos Society over the past year, including posts, Online Open House events, Homer readings, and community activities. Read more…
Homeric Greek | Odyssey 1.187–193: Rattling around in enjambments
In this segment, Douglas Frame (CHS), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University), and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) read in Greek, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.187–193. Topics include: Athena’s description of Laertes, with attention to translation and syntax with multiple enjambments. Read more…
Core Vocab: sōphrōn, sōphrosunē
This time the Core Vocab word is sōphrōn [σώφρων] ‘moderate, balanced, with equilibrium’; sōphrosunē [σωφροσύνη] ‘being sōphrōn’. In H24H, Gregory Nagy discusses the word as it relates to worshippers of Dionysus and as a metaphor describing the pilot of a ship in the Homeric Hymn (7) to Dionysus. Here are some other passages where the word appears. Read more…
