The Center for Hellenic Studies
"Silence is no ornament for a successful man. With remembrance of fine deeds a man will also sing the gracious recompense made by the honey-voiced Cean nightingale." This month we are reading poems of Bacchylides. Discussion will start and continue in the Forum, and we will meet via Zoom on Tuesday, October 25 at 11:00 EDT.
"... Sinis used to take hold of pine trees and draw them down. All those whom he overcame in fight he used to tie to the trees, and then allow them to swing up again. Thereupon ... the bound man...was torn in two. This was the way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus." I looked for examples of…
Having come across across references to trees and to wooden construction in the Iliad and Odyssey, my curiosity was piqued,…
Theophrastus, in Enquiry into Plants, says "we must endeavour to speak of timber, saying of what nature is that of…
We were pleased to welcome Suzanne Lye, Assistant Professor of Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,…
