In this segment, Douglas Frame (CHS), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University), and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) discuss Odyssey 1.194–202, with attention to translation and the meaning of particles, an analysis of a possible reference to alternative/earlier versions of the Odyssey in Athena's speech to Telemachus, and a discussion of the motif of “wild men.” Read more
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
In this segment, Douglas Frame (CHS), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University), and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University), read in Homeric Greek, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.178–186. Topics include demonstratives, the verb eukhomai, Athena as Mentes, the preposition epi, the adjective allothroosand placenames, the phrases agō aithōna sidēron and epi oinopa ponton, and epithets and properties of wine in the poetic tradition. Read more
In this segment, Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy continue their discussion of Odyssey 1.169–177. Topics include: the power of the conjunction epei to conjure myth; keĩnos in epiphanies; and Athena's travels. Read more
In this segment, Douglas Frame (CHS), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis University), and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University), read in Homeric Greek, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.169–177. Topics include: meanings of the conjunction kai, ancestral guests, and the suppression of Odysseus' name. Read more
