We were excited to welcome back Maša Ćulumović, for an Open House: "Musical Heroes: A Discussion on Pindar's Pythian 12" on Friday, May 29, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, which 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
In part 1, we looked at dreams as represented in Homeric epic. In part 2, we continue our exploration with some passages from tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, and lyric poetry, representing different types of dream, whether direct messages or coded symbols. Read more
We were excited to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou for an Open House discussion on "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. There is a handout available. Read more
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
We were pleased to welcome back Maša Ćulumović, CHS Fellow, as a guest for a discussion on Pindar's Poetics of Homecoming. The event took place on Thursday, November 15, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. EST, and was recorded. Read more
