Classical Lectures and Conferences in the Metropolitan Area

The Homeric Reading Group of New York will resume its activities this fall, meeting once a week, Saturday mornings, 10 – 12.  The only requirement to participate is that potential members of the Group have taken, or are currently taking a course in Homer, or have otherwise read a fair amount of Homer in the original Greek.   The principal aim of the Homeric Reading Group is to enrich our understanding of the Homeric poems by exploring the oral and aural aspects of the poetry.  We will work towards hearing and recreating the sounds of Homer’s Greek as authentically as our current linguistic and metrical knowledge permits.  This will include an introduction to the restored pronunciation of ancient Greek (based primarily of W.S. Allen’s Vox Graeca, 3rd ed.), the use of quantitative rhythm (based on patterns of long and short syllables), and the use of the musical pitch accents.  The first meeting of the Homeric Reading Group is scheduled for Saturday, 29 September, 10 am, at 425 Riverside Drive (115 St.), apt. 12H. We shall  begin where we left off last spring: Odyssey 10.487. Contact: Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York, Tel. 212-666-6228, Email: sgdaitz@aol.com

Submissions of other selections are welcome (click on Submissions on the website), particularly in Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, oratory, philosophy, and history.

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