Paraskevi Foti has written a doctoral dissertation on teaching ancient Greek to pre-school children in Greece, using Aesop's Fables, and music. Here, she shares some insights from her research. Read more
Gregory Nagy,Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner, read, translate, and discuss Odyssey 1.149–154 in the original Greek in the most accessible way. Topics include word choices, effects of the particles, the figure of the poet Phemios, and shifting visualizations of stringed instruments in Homer. Read more
Watch the CHS Open House discussion with John C. Franklin discussing his book Kinyras: The Divine Lyre. Kinyras was a mythical priest-king of pre-Greek Cyprus, and John C. Franklin's research draws on Greco-Roman material and Near Eastern evidence for the divinization of temple lyres, and seeks to illustrate the cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean. Read more
It is odd that a culture that seems to personify most natural features as deities has so few gods of the mountain peaks.There seem to be only ten mountains called “god.” Three of them, Helikon, Cithaeron, and Tmolus, have distinctive myths or personalities. Cithaeron and Tmolus are associated with Dionysus, Helikon more famously with Apollo and the Muses. These three mountains are also associated with musical contests. Read more
