In this segment Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy discuss Odyssey 1.230–238. Topics include grieving over one who is missing in action; the concept of "blameless" as originating in the sacrificial language; a metaphor of ending (the war) as winding up a wool thread into a ball; and a discussion of the relation of movable nu and pauses at lines' ends. Read more
In this segment Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy read, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.221–229. Topics include long-term and short-term genealogies; asyndeton as an expressive tool; a hubristic feast; Telemachus, son of Odysseus/son of Penelope; larger-than-life heroes. Read more
In this segment Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy read, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.213–220, focusing on the synchronic and diachronic etymologies and meanings of Telemachus' epithet pepnumenos, "breathed-in." Read more
In this video Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy, and Douglas Frame talk about the experience of reading Homer together without doing any preparations, as a playful and open-minded activity. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing further segments of the Center for Hellenic Studies series in which they read, translate, and discuss passages from Homeric epic. 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
