HeroesX v14 Office Hours 01 | The Hero, the Gods, and the Superhuman @KosmosSociety2024

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Discussion topics include: the relationship of the gods/goddesses and heroes/heroines; superhuman vs supernatural; characteristics of heroes; unseasonality and being exceptionality; agency, free will and determination; myth [mūthos] as cosmic truth; kleos of heroes and divinities; disfunctionality and immorality in the world of myth; the uniqueness of the Iliad and of Achilles; Orphic and Homeric traditions; Calliope as the Muse of kings; three Muses Mnēmē, Meletē, Aoidē; Catalogue of Ships; performance and reading as relay.

Recorded in Fall 2020 during v14 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 DeStone, and members of the HeroesX Team.

HeroesX v14 Office Hours 01 | The Hero, the Gods, and the Superhuman

HeroesX v05 Office Hours 12 | Artemis, Correct ritual, Thebes, Hippolytus at Troezen

HeroesX v05 Office Hours 04 | Micro- and macro-narrative, Sacrifice of hair

HeroesX v16 Office Hours 07 | The Just, the Wrong, and the Hero

HeroesX v07 Office Hours 07 | Right and Wrong, Penelopes Weaving, Homer and Hesiod

HeroesX v12 Office Hours 03 | Sappho, Achilles and the Therapeutic Heroes

HeroesX v03 Office Hours 02 | Questions about Signs of the Hero in Epic and Iconography

HeroesX v09 Office Hours Extras 02 | Speech Acts, Women in Epic, Integration of Opposites

HeroesX v04 Office Hours 06 | Epic and Cult Heroes

HeroesX v15 Office Hours 11 | Cult Heroes, Kleos, and Myrtles

HeroesX v15 Office Hours 10 | Ancestral Customs and Heroic Pollution in Ancient Greek Civilization

HeroesX v05 Office Hours 03 | Women in Homeric epic