HeroesX v12 Office Hours 01 | The Iliad and its Muse, or Muses @KosmosSociety2024

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Discussion topics include: the figure of the Muse as a source of narrative authentication in the Iliad. Nine Muses of the Catalogue of Ships; rhapsodic performances of the Iliad; an abridged invocation of the Muse in the epic, and long versions of the invocation of deities in the Homeric Hymns; Orpheus the son of Calliope as an early notion of a poet.

Recorded in Fall 2019 during v12 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 1 and 2, and responses to the Discussion Questions.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.

HeroesX v12 Office Hours 01 | The Iliad and its Muse, or Muses

HeroesX v13 Office Hours 10 | Poseidon, Oedipus, and the Sphinx

HeroesX v09 Office Hours 02 | The Song of Andromache and Hector

HeroesX v08 Office Hours 04 | Reading the Vase Paintings and the Iliad

HeroesX v08 Office Hours Extras 05 | Roman Heroes, and Ancient Greek Perception of Color

HeroesX v12 Office Hours 11 | Oedipus as the Riddles Answer; Zigzagging Chronology of the Chorus

HeroesX v08 Office Hours 01 | Fate, and Hours 1 and 2

Conversation HeroesX Office Hour 2025 10 30 pt1-2

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

HeroesX v11 Office Hours 03 | Sapphos Achilles, and Therapeutic Intersubjectivity

HeroesX v07 Office Hours 02 | The Last Meeting of Hector and Andromache

HeroesX v15 Office Hours 06 | Completeness or Incompleteness of the Odyssey