We were pleased to welcome Douglas Frame, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles’.
You can watch the recording of the broadcast via the frame below, or on the CHS YouTube channel.
To prepare for this conversation, participants might like to read the following paper by Douglas Frame:
Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles
Members can start and continue discussion on this topic in this forum thread.
Interview:
“Homer’s Hidden Muse and Related Questions: a conversation with classicist Douglas Frame”
Books:
The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
Hippota Nestor
Articles:
“Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take”
“The Homeric Poems After Ionia: A Case in Point”
Douglas Frame
1971 Harvard Ph.D. in classical philology; until 2000 college teaching for some of the time, other pursuits for more of the time; since 2000 Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington; after retiring as Associate Director in 2012 continued affiliation with the CHS.
Image credit
Photo by Richard Friedericks A scene from Mahabharata via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.