Tagged: Ancient Greece

Ajax, Hecuba, and Vietnam

November 21, 2019 at 11:02 am

The image above is taken from a stage adaptation of the Iliad, now performing at ArtsEmerson. A group of Core students is venturing downtown to see this production, titled An Iliad, putting us in mind here on campus about the enduring relevance of this ancient text. Do our modern times still reflect that old world? […]

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Ancient Greek Music

November 13, 2018 at 4:37 pm

Since we’ll be looking at the Ancient Greek Acropolis in our next CC101 lecture, we thought you might be interested inlearning more about music from the time.    

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Reminder: “Ancient Greece” a hoax, historians admitted in 2010

October 2, 2015 at 9:37 am

From the October 7, 2010 issue of The Onion: “Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far,” said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. “We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, […]

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Who was Homer, really?

January 5, 2015 at 12:01 pm

Homer is known to CC 101 students as the author of the Odyssey, but surprisingly enough, not much more is known about his life story. A recent article published in the National Geographic suggests that Homer wasn’t a person, but a tradition.

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Uber reviews for Charon, boatman of Hades

January 5, 2015 at 10:48 am

The taxi service Uber is taking Boston by force. With its mixed reviews in the media, riders wonder about their drivers as well as what services are offered outside Beantown. Lucky for us at the Core office, Professor Hamill left a copy of the New Yorker open to an article providing Uber  reviews for Charon, […]

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Us vs. Them: Tension in All Times

February 2, 2011 at 10:34 am

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a piece detailing various perspectives on the problem of people from the other– namely, that we are inclined to orient ourselves to favour people like “us” and treat less positively people “like them:” Are we just boringly binary? And why, as both Rodney King and distinguished science writer […]

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