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Professor Gregory Nagy, KeithDeStone, Professor Olga Levaniouk, Claudia Filos, Arin Jones, and Hélène Emeriaud join the discussion about Odyssey 19 and 23, Penelope, "The Song of the Bed "and other topics...
Professor Gregory Nagy, KeithDeStone, Professor Olga Levaniouk, Claudia Filos, Arin Jones, and Hélène Emeriaud join the discussion about Odyssey 19 and 23, Penelope, "The Song of the Bed "and other topics...


![HeroesX v06 Office Hours 07 | Justice, Palm Trees, and the Transition to Prose
Discussion topics include responses to comments and questions from the community about the relationships between: Poetry and prose; Homeric and Hesiodic traditions; Justice and vegetal images
In particular Gregory Nagy and Keith Stone discuss an Attic red-figure column-krater (c. 450 BCE) that features (from left to right) Artemis holding an oinochoe; Apollo holding a laurel branch and a phiale, about to pour a libation on the altar left; the personification of the Delos island on which the scene takes place (see the palm-tree).
Recorded in Fall 2016 during v6 of of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hour 12.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone
Image credit: Attic red-figure column-krater, c. 450 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Spain.
Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2008-05-02 [CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_Artemis_Delos_MAN.jpgpollo, Artemis, and a palm tree. HeroesX v06 Office Hours 07 | Justice, Palm Trees, and the Transition to Prose](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F0mqR2r_mbw/mqdefault.jpg)







