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Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner on Greek dialects and the poetic super-language

Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner on Greek dialects and the poetic super-language

In this video, Gregory Nagy discusses with Douglas Frame and Leonard Muellner an introduction to how ancient Greek dialects function in Homeric poetry. Topics include: Attic Greek koinē Ionian Aeolian metrical differences and lack of redundancy formulae evolution and perpetuation of the poetic super-language You can watch the video in the frame below, or on the CHS YouTube channel.

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CHS Online Open House | Gift of tripods in Odyssey 13, with Douglas Frame

CHS Online Open House | Gift of tripods in Odyssey 13, with Douglas Frame

Douglas Frame, Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, will join the CHS community for a return visit and an Online Open House discussion on April 20 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. The event will be streamed live, and will be recorded. Watch the event live on the Kosmos website, or the CHS YouTube channel, where you will also be able to post short questions. You may like to read Odyssey Book…

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A Homer Commentary in Progress goes live! An evolving, collaborative commentary based on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord The intellectual goal of the original editors is simple and at the same time most ambitious: of all existing commentaries on Homeric poetry, this project is the first and only such commentary that is based squarely on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and his student, Albert Lord, who created a new way of thinking about Homeric poetry.

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CHS Open House: ‘Touring the Ionian Dodecapolis with Homer in Mind’, with Leonard Muellner & Douglas Frame

We are pleased to welcome Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame for our next CHS Open House discussion, on Friday, October 30, at 10:30 a.m. EDT when their subject will be ‘Touring the Ionian Dodecapolis with Homer in Mind’. To watch the event live, simply tune in to this blog post at the appropriate time. To participate in the live Q&A, please visit the associated event page on Google+ here. The…

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CHS Open House: ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic’ with Douglas Frame

We are pleased to welcome Douglas Frame, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles’ on Thursday, June 4 at 11:00 a.m EDT. You can watch the Live broadcast via the frame below, or at the event page on Google + here. To prepare for this conversation,…

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Now Available Online – The Singer of Tales

Visit kleos@chs to find additional material and resources on Albert B. Lord’s classic work, The Singer of Tales

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website.

Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in the Yugoslavia of 1933–35. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry to further…

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