We were pleased to welcome Timothy Power (Rutgers University) for a CHS Open House discussion on 'Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece'. This event was recorded and will be available soon. In connection with the event, you might like to read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Timothy Power's book The Culture of Kitharôidia, available for free at CHS. Read more
We were pleased to welcome Maria G. Xanthou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe’. Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe Maternal figures are inescapable in the fragmentarily preserved Stesichorean poetry. Two of them, Althaea… Read more
We are pleased to share the following video. It features Professor Gregory Nagy leading a discussion for the Sunoikisis Greek Lyric class from the fall of 2013. Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and… Read more
