Pindar

Online Open House | Musical Heroes: A Discussion of Pindar’s Pythian 12, with Maša Ćulumović

We were excited to welcome back Maša Ćulumović, for an Online Open House. The topic of the discussion is "Musical Heroes: A Discussion on Pindar's Pythian 12" The event took place on Friday, May 29, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, and was recorded. Maša Ćulumović has shared her own translation of the poem, and invites us to think about a number of questions in connection with this discussion. Read more

Online Open House | The Muse(s)’s “white noise”: the background of sound-scape and the gustatory acoustics of Pindar’s epinician odes,with Maria G. Xanthou

We were excited to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou for an Online Open House. The title of the discussion is "The Muse(s)'s "white noise", sympotic calm, and the taste of sound: the background of sound-scape and the gustatory acoustics of Pindar's epinician odes." The event took place on Thursday, February 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. Read more

Core Vocab: nomos

Solon "was spending ten years abroad after having made laws [nomoi] for the Athenians ... the real reason was not to have to repeal any of the laws [nomoi] he had made. The Athenians could not do this on their own, having sworn by the strongest oaths to observe for ten years whatever laws [nomoi] Solon gave them." Our next Core Vocab term is nomos [νόμος], glossed in H24H and… Read more