The Kosmos Society

Leonard Muellner
Visiting Scholars

CHS Online Open House | The Free First Thousand Years of Greek, with Leonard Muellner

We were pleased to welcome back Leonard Muellner, who introduced the features and plans for the CHS project entitled The Free First Thousand Years of Greek (FF1K). The FF1K comprises the texts attested in manuscript from the earliest antiquity up to the 3rd Century CE., with some later additions that are part of the “normal” corpus of texts that classical Greek and Latin includes, such as the marginal scholia for… Read more

Reading Homer

Homeric Greek | Odyssey 1.178–186: Multiple versions, wine-bright sea, and blazing iron

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

Book Club

Book Club | September 2018: The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic

"The subject of the Iliad is the anger of Achilles, not Achilles himself. But what is this anger of his?" In this month's Book Club selection we will be reading how Leonard Muellner uses the insights of Albert Lord on epic themes, and looks at such anger not as a universal feeling but as culture-specific. "Ultimately, a wide-eyed journey into the world of epic and its mightiest feelings stands to… Read more