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Deborah Beck

Visiting Scholars

Video: CHS Open House | Similes and Storytelling in Homer’s Iliad, with Deborah Beck

"[Sarpedon] fell, as when an oak goes down or a white poplar, / or like a towering pine tree which in the mountains the carpenters /have hewn down with their whetted axes to make a ship-timber." We were pleased to welcome Professor Deborah Beck of University of Texas for a CHS Open House discussion on "Similes and Storytelling in Iliad 16." Read more

Book Club

Book Club | September 2016: Homeric Conversation

Our Book Club selection for September is from Deborah Beck Homeric Conversation, which you can find on the CHS website. We will all be reading the introduction, and then each of you can choose one other chapter to read. You can start and continue the conversation in the forum, and we will be meeting via Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, September 27 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more