We were excited to welcome back Richard P. Martin for an Online Open House entitled “What's a kômos song?” The event took place on Friday, September 25 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. There are associated handouts. 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 Timothy Power (Rutgers University) for an Open House discussion on 'Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece'. Timothy Power's book The Culture of Kitharôidia is available free online. Read more
Our next Book Club selection features two selections from Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales: Chapter 2 'Singers: Performance and Training', and Chapter 5 'Songs and the Song'. This book, originally published in 1960, is based on research carried out in the former Yugoslavia by Milman Parry in the 1930s, which focused on how singers who learn songs in an oral tradition compose in performance. This provides valuable evidence… Read more
Hold it right there. Tell me this, Ion—respond to what I ask without concealment. When you say well the epic verses and induce a feeling of bedazzlement [ekplēxis] for the spectators [theōmenoi]—...are you then in your right mind, or outside yourself? Read more
