Here is a foretaste of what is to come during Fall 2018 at the Book Club, in which we will be reading selections from secondary sources and from ancient Greek primary texts. Look out for further announcements in September, October, and November, with details of the selections, links to free online versions, and the hangout dates. We are all looking forward to future conversations. Read more
The Kosmos Society team is pleased to share news of the first annual nomination period for the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Forum Prize. This prize recognizes outstanding contributions to public engagement made by non-academic works about the ancient Greek and Roman world. Read more
Paraskevi Foti has written a doctoral dissertation on teaching ancient Greek to pre-school children in Greece, using Aesop's Fables, and music. Here, she shares some insights from her research. Read more
We are pleased to share the next installment of the recordings of Antigone, taken from lines 997–1114, performed by students from Lyceum № 208 in Kyiv and with the assistance of the Theatre of Modern Drama and Comedy. This excerpt begins when Antigone is led away by the guards. Tiresias warns Creon about his actions. Read more
"I want to focus on Odysseus’s nostos as taking place in a wholly imaginary world. For however deep the roots of Greek nostos in Indo-European myth, the Odyssey stands out in making Odysseus’s return an exclusively imaginary voyage." We are grateful to the Center for Odyssean Studies for permission to share Douglas Frame's paper "From Scheria to Ithaca." Read more
