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Discussion topics include participants’ responses to questions about Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus Tyrannus.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on issues relating to the Discussion Questions for Hours 18 and 19.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Discussion topics include participants’ responses to questions about Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus Tyrannus.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on issues relating to the Discussion Questions for Hours 18 and 19.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
![HeroesX v03 Office Hours 01 | Questions about Epic and Lyric
Discussion topics include: reading the Iliad, and the Odyssey; poetry, song, performance, and the oral poetic system, in ancient Greek song culture; slow and fast reading; the Catalogue of Ships; the anger [mēnis] of Achilles; withdrawal of Achilles.
Recorded during v3 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, covering questions raised by participants about Hours 1–5.
With Claudia Filos, Gregory Nagy, Leonard Muellner, Allie Marbry HeroesX v03 Office Hours 01 | Questions about Epic and Lyric](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EZVYwaveXxo/mqdefault.jpg)



![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)





