For April, our Book Club selection is the Characters of Theophrastus, brief outlines or sketches of thirty moral types. Discussion starts and continues in the Forum; Zoom meeting Tuesday, April 25 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
"What was Agamemnon like as a character for Homer and his audience? More fundamentally, how should we approach the topic of characterization itself, following the discoveries of Milman Parry, Albert Lord, and their successors?" For October, we will read Andrew Porter’s Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer, available at the Center for Hellenic Studies website. Discussion starts and continues in the Forum, and via Zoom on Tuesday, October… Read more
