The Center for Hellenic Studies
We are excited to welcome Jared Simard of New York University for an Online Open House entitled “Rockefeller Center and the Image of a Titan.” The event will take place on Friday, December 2 at 11:00 a.m. EST and will be recorded.
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.
Diogenes Laertius wrote in Greek in the third century CE. The piece of writing that has survived is his Lives…
Study of Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers gives us tantalizing snippets of information about women of whom we…
Diogenes Laertius’s main intention was to write biographies of male philosophers, but his writings also reveal, sometimes unintentionally, women’s roles…
