Recap: Yiqun Zhou on Bad Emperors Obsessed with Foreign Cultures – The Center for Hellenic Studies
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Recap: Cléo Carastro on Polytheisms and Cosmologies – The Center for Hellenic Studies
Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the fourth meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Cléo Carastro for her talk, “Polytheisms and Cosmologies-Comparative perspectives on ancient Greece and contemporary Nuna societies (Burkina Faso, West Africa)” Carastro’s presentation began with a set of questions: What does it mean to compare contemporary and ancient societies? And what happens when, instead of comparing ancient societies, we open comparison to t...
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Recap: Johannes Haubold on Disciplinary Perspectives – The Center for Hellenic Studies
Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the fourth meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Johannes Haubold for his talk, “Comparatism from a Disciplinary Perspective: The Case of Classics and Assyriology.” Haubold’s talk considered how the disciplinary context of comparison affects what we compare and how we do it. For example, what are the consequences of the Homeric poems and The Epic of Gilgamesh belonging to two different disciplines (Clas...
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