HeroesX v05 Office Hours 10 | Sacrifice, Laments, and Fear @KosmosSociety2024

Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 46 minutes ago

Discussion topics and questions include: The theme of human sacrifice in ancient Greek literature; Are laments spontaneous? Types of fear; The experience of traveling to Greece

Recorded in Spring 2016 during v5 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hour 17, Aeschylus Libation Bearers and Eumenides.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, Claudia Filos

HeroesX v05 Office Hours 10 | Sacrifice, Laments, and Fear

HeroesX v10 Office Hours 06 | Does the Odyssey Ever End?

HeroesX v08 Office Hours 11 | Phaedra and Pentheus

HeroesX v06 Office Hours 13 | The Song of Moses, The Shield of Achilles, and ox-vision Hera

HeroesX v07 Office Hours 12 | Plato’s Odysseus, and Socrates’ Ongoing Dialogues

HeroesX v10 Office Hours 04 | Visual and Verbal Variants; The Weight of psūkhē

HeroesX v11 Office Hours 01 | Muse speaking for the Cosmic Record

HeroesX v06 Office Hours 10 | Oedipus, the downfall of Heroes, and Night of the Iguana

HeroesX v11 Office Hours 02 | Achilles, His Women, and How to Like Him

HeroesX v13 Office Hours 02 | Loving Achilles?

HeroesX v16 Office Hours 04 | Visualizing Heroes