We were excited to welcome James Collins for an Online Open House entitled “Choral Performance and Civic Virtues.” The event took place on Friday, May 27 at 4:00 p.m. EDT and was recorded. You can watch the recording in this post or on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel. Read more
Set your step to the dance, my dear, [860] like a fawn leaping high up to heaven with joy. Your brother is victorious and has accomplished the wearing of a crown . . . beside the streams of Alpheus. Come sing [865] a glorious victory ode, to my dance. Read more
Our first Book Club selection for the new year is from Claude Calame: Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece. The discussion will start and continue in the forum, and we will meet via Google+ Hangout on Tuesday January 30, at 11 a.m. EST. Read more
...sometimes they would dance deftly in a ring with merry twinkling feet, as it were a potter sitting at his work and making trial of his wheel to see whether it will run, and sometimes they would go all in line with one another, and many people were gathered joyously about the place of dancing [khoros]. There was a singer also to sing to them and play his lyre, while… Read more
