HeroesX v08 Office Hours Extras 02 | Women & men, and philiā @KosmosSociety2024

Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

Discussion of the roles of women and men in Homeric epic poetry, and the concept of philiā.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of MOOC The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, in response to participants’ questions.
With Leonard Muellner, Sarah Scott
Mentioned in this video:
Benveniste, Émile. 1974. Indo-European Language and Society. Miami. See Part 3: Social Status, Chapter 4: philos
https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/chapter-2-status-of-the-mother-and-matrilineal-descent/

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