Epic themes
Homeric poetry, multitextuality, and jazz, with Graeme Bird
Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of
Strife, with Joel Christensen
Beautiful Bodies or Beautiful Minds: Disability Studies in Homer, with
Joel Christensen
Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts,
with Joel Christensen
epaineîn and the Poetics of Consent in Homer, with David Elmer
Indo-European Epic Poetry, with Kevin McGrath
Muthos, Mythology, and the Language of Heroes, with Richard P. Martin
Oral Poetics & Composition-in-Performance, with Gregory Nagy and
Guests
Conversation with Kosmos Society (Hour 25), with Gregory Nagy and
Douglas Frame
Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece
and India, with Shubha Pathak
Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod, with Yiannis Petropoulos
The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
Equine Poetics, with Ryan Platte
The Lives of Homer as Aetiologies for Homeric Poetry, with Gregory Nagy
Iliad
Similes and Storytelling in Homer’s Iliad, with Deborah Beck
“And Then an Amazon Came”: Homeric Papyri, with Casey Dué
Nestor and Indo-European Twin Myths, with Douglas Frame
‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic:
Arjuna and Achilles, with Douglas Frame
‘The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, with Casey Dué
Recall Strategies in the Iliad, with Lynn Kozac
Whose plan is this? Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and
the Odyssey, with Efimia D. Karakantza and Justin Arft
Charioteers and Charioteering in the Iliad and Mahābhārata, with Kevin
McGrath
‘Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad, with Laura Slatkin
Iliad IX, and the Responses of Achilles, with Leonard Muellner
Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush, with Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott
(audio only)
Eros and Cosmos: Approaching the Golden Cloud of Iliad 14, with Seemee
Ali
Achilles and Aeneas ‘beyond fate’: An exploration of Iliad 20 and the
Multiformity of the Iliad, with Casey Dué
Odyssey
The Odyssey, “Breaking Bad,” and Problematic Endings, with Joel
Christensen
The Children of Odysseus, and Multiformity, with Joel Christensen
On the Odyssey, Kingship, and Nestor, with Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame
and Leonard Muellner
Nostos, names, and the younger generation of heroes, with Gregory Nagy
(transcript only)
Odyssey or the Return of a Song, with Ioanna Papadopoulou
The narrative form of the Odyssey, with Kevin McGrath
Penelope & Weaving, with Olga Levaniouk
Dialogue: Ancient Greek Brides, Death, and Exchange, with Olga Levaniouk
The Dreams of Barchin and Penelope, with Olga Levaniouk
The relevance of Odysseus’ words about kingship in Odyssey 8, with
Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame
Exchanges in the Odyssey‘s Underworld, with Nancy Felson, Laura Slatkin,
and Maša Ćulumović
Odysseus and the Poetics of katábasis, with Stamatia Dova
Confessions of murder in the Odyssey, with Eunice Kim
Gift of tripods in Odyssey 13, with Douglas Frame
See also “Homeric Greek: Odyssey“.
Epic Cycle and Homeric Hymns
Comparative Mythology and Folktale Studies: Kore, Demeter, Baldr, and
the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”, with Riccardo Ginevra, University of Cologne
A Cyclic Odysseus is a Dead Odysseus: Homer and the Epic Cycle on
(Mis)Recognition, with Justin Arft
Continued conversation on Within the Kyklos: ‘Whose plan is this?‘
Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and the Odyssey with Justin Arft
Interview: Cartoons, Homeric Hymns, and Drawing as a Daily Ritual, with
Glynnis Fawkes
Other Greek Poetry
Pindar’s Poetics of Homecoming, with Maša Ćulumović
Musical Heroes: A Discussion of Pindar’s Pythian 12, with Maša Ćulumović
Sappho 44, with Gregory Nagy
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: experiments in comparative
reception theory, with Gregory Nagy
Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe, with Maria G.
Xanthou
Pindar, with Maria G. Xanthou
The Muse(s)’s “white noise”: the background of sound-scape and the
gustatory acoustics of Pindar’s epinician odes, with Maria G. Xanthou
The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
Equine Poetics, with Ryan Platte
Hellenistic poeti vaganti , with Angela Cinalli
What’s a kômos song?, with Richard P. Martin
Tragedy and Comedy
A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from
Menander and Kālidāsa, with Arti Mehta
Euripides’ Erechtheus in context, with Lucia Athanassaki
Wives of Returning Veterans in Classical Athenian Drama, with Erika
Weiberg
Heroine cult and tragedy, with special reference to the Medea of
Euripides, with Richard P. Martin
Herakles and The Best of the Achaeans, with Gregory Nagy
Hēraklēs: Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology, with Gregory
Nagy
The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today, with Paul
O’Mahony
Zeus in Comedy, with Jeffrey S Rusten
Community discussion: Aeschylus Eumenides, with guest Joel Christensen
Community discussion: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, with guest Leonard
Muellner
Community discussion: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, with guest Norman Sandridge
See also “Reading Greek Tragedy Online”
Student performances
Antigone 441–581 (performed by Greek and US students)
Antigone 1–161 (Gloucester High School, Massachussetts, USA); 155–331
(1st and 2nd High Schools, Nafplio, Greece); 441–582 (Lynn English High School,
Massachussetts, USA); 577–800 (Modern High School for Girls, Kolkota, India);
801–943 (Trinitas Gymnasium, Almere, Netherlands); and
“Ode to Man,” 334–383, performed by four of the groups
Antigone 997–1114 (Ukraine)
History
Experimental Archaeology of Ancient Greek Warfare, with Paul Bardunias,
Christian Cameron, Giannis Kadoglou
Theognis, earwax and the end of the Lelantine War, with Natasha
Bershadsky
Sparta and its continuing myth, with Paul Cartledge
Disease and Social Order: The Plague Narratives of Thucydides and
Lucretius, with Rob Cioffi
Uncanny Intruders: Ghosts and Greek Literature, with Rob Cioffi
Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour
Immigration and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in 4th-Century BCE
Athens, with Denise Demetriou
The Social Networks of Athenian Potters, with Eleni Hasaki and Diane
Harris Cline
The Geoarchaeology of Miletus, with Alexander Herda
Herodotus, with Alexander J. Hollmann
A French Book on Ancient Greek Diseases and Thoughts about Translating
it into English, with Leonard Muellner
The Arrhēphoroi as understood by Pausanias, with Gregory Nagy
Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, with Gregory Nagy
Crossing the Sea: Migration in the Ancient World, with Paul O’Mahony
Late Bronze Age burials at Mycenae, and what they tell us, with Heleni
Palaiologou
Waste in antiquity, with Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: : Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s
Design, with Rachele Pierini
The Legacy of Minos, with Gloria F. Pinney
Heroism, Charisma, and Legitimate Rule: A Dialogue with Max Weber, with
Nicolas Prevelakis
Thucydides on Early Greece and the Trojan War, with Jeffrey S Rusten
Xenophon, Agamemnon, and Leadership, with Norman Sandridge
Deaths of ancient leaders, with Norman Sandridge
Gold, kraters, and treasur(i)es in Herodotus Histories Book 1, with
Maria G. Xanthou
High and low: Xerxes’ desire of Thessalian heights and Tempe gorge, with
Maria G. Xanthou
Chalcidian regionality between Sithonia and Pallene: from periphery to
epichoric identity, with Maria G. Xanthou
Metus hostilis and fear appeals in 4th c. BCE rhetoric, with Maria G.
Xanthou
Philosophy
Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour
How and Why to Read Plato in the Early Common Era, with Ryan Fowler
Re-Re-Counting Plato: This Time with More Data, with Thomas Köntges
The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark
Other Greek texts
‘Hammering a Nail with a Nail’: Reading Collections of Ancient Greek
Proverbs, with Joel Christensen
Magical Strategies for Everyday Problems, with Suzanne Lye
Aesop and Fables, with Arti Mehta
Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy, with Gregory Nagy
Love wishes, with Yiannis Petropoulos
Teaching and Learning the Greek Classics in Prison, with Laura M.
Slatkin
The Reception of Greek in Renaissance Italy, with Caroline Stark
Texts and traditions from related languages and cultures
Making Connections: Exploring Beowulf, with Graeme Bird
From Homer to Ferdowsi, with Olga M. Davidson
Persian epic and the embedding of a song of lament, with Olga M.
Davidson
Nestor and Indo-European Twin Myths, with Douglas Frame
Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna
and Achilles, with Douglas Frame
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin
Living Traditions of Vedic Ritual and Recitation in India, with Finnian
Moore Gerety
The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 2.552–565,
708–832, with Miriam Kamil
Charioteers and Charioteering in the Iliad and Mahābhārata, with Kevin
McGrath
Indo-European Epic Poetry, with Kevin McGrath
A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from
Menander and Kālidāsa, with Arti Mehta
The Táin, with Richard P. Martin
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Leonard Muellner
From Homer to Virgil, with Gregory Nagy
Aeneid 4–6, with Gregory Nagy
The poetry of Horace, with Gregory Nagy
Hēraklēs: Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology, with Gregory
Nagy
A Hero Named Heather and Other Peculiarities in the Early Medieval Irish
Saga The Cattle-Raid of Fraech, with Joseph F. Nagy
Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece
and India, with Shubha Pathak
Dialogue of the deaf: puppeteers vs. interviewers on oral history and
historical data, with Anna Stavrakopoulou
Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone
Song of Moses, Song of Deuteronomy, with Keith Stone
The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Search for Everlasting Life, with Jacqueline
Vayntrub
Music and visual arts
Musical Heroes: A Discussion of Pindar’s Pythian 12, with Maša Ćulumović
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin
Living Traditions of Vedic Ritual and Recitation in India, with Finnian
Moore Gerety
Performance Traditions in Greece, with Panayotis Fragkiskos League
Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece, with Tim
Power
The Social Networks of Athenian Potters, with Diane Harris Cline and
Eleni Hasaki
Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: : Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s
Design, with Rachele Pierini
Weaver as a Hero, with Susan Edmunds
Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of
Temple C, with Kathryn R. Topper
Digital research
CHS Dialogues: Classics, Geography and Computing, with Elton Barker
CHS Dialogues: Finding Beauty in the Smallest Words: Ancient Greek
Particles and Particle Clusters, with Anna Bonifazi
Building Digital Classical Imagination, with Luke Hollis
Re-Re-Counting Plato: This Time with More Data, with Thomas Köntges
The Free First Thousand Years of Greek, with Leonard Muellner
A Land Called Crete: From Harriet Boyd Hawes to the Cretan Collections
Project, with Andrew Koh
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ΠΗΓΗ: Γ. Λεκάκης «Ελληνική
βιβλιογραφία». ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 26.2.2021.
