We were pleased to welcome Robert Cioffi of Bard College, for an Online Open House discussion entitled “Uncanny Intruders: Ghosts and Greek Literature." The discussion was live-streamed on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel on Friday, October 23 at 11 a.m. EDT, and was recorded. Read more
Our next Book Club selection is The Dialogues of the Dead by Lucian, whose satirical dialogues poked fun at philosophers and mythological characters. The discussion will start in the Forum, and we will meet via Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, February 27, at 11 a.m. EST. Read more
We were pleased to welcome Jeffrey Rusten of Cornell University, Department of Classics, for a CHS Online Open House discussion about Zeus in Comedy. In preparation you might like to read the suggested passages from the Iliad, Aristophanes Plutus, and Lucian. Read more
The ancients seem to have had as many questions about Homer as we moderns do. At the end of the Apology, Plato has Socrates wonder aloud how marvelous it would be if we could anticipate actually meeting and conversing with Homer (along with Orpheus, Musaeus, and Hesiod) in the afterlife: "...if this be true, let me die again and again." Read more
