We are excited to welcome Bettina Joy de Guzman for an Online Open House entitled “Performing Ancient Greek lyric and music” The event will take place on Friday, February 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel. Read more
For October's Book Club, we will be reading selections from Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall, which will provide the opportunity to read different perspectives about various aspects of theatrical performance in ancient Greece. Community discussion starts in the forum, and we will meet online on Tuesday October 29. Read more
For the first Online Open House discussion of Fall 2019, we were delighted to welcome Lynn Kozak, McGill University, to discuss 'Recall Strategies in the Iliad'. The event took place on Thursday, September 12, at 11 a.m. EDT and was recorded. Read more
In this video Gregory Nagy, Leonard Muellner, and Douglas Frame discuss reading Homer aloud: pronunciation and its changes through time; pausing at enjambments; mastering the rhythm by memorizing passages; fixed metrical patterns; rhythm built into the language; predictability of ends of hexameter lines. Read more
We are pleased to share the next installment of the recordings of Antigone, taken from lines 997–1114, performed by students from Lyceum № 208 in Kyiv and with the assistance of the Theatre of Modern Drama and Comedy. This excerpt begins when Antigone is led away by the guards. Tiresias warns Creon about his actions. Read more
