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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The forums are now open!
In order to facilitate meaningful course discussion, students will be assigned to 1,000-person cohorts, each of which is named after an ancient Greek hero. These groups will include not only new students, but also alumni and Teaching Fellows who have assisted Prof. Nagy over the last 30 years that this course has been offered at Harvard.
Your cohort will have its own discussion forum, which can be accessed here. Prof. Nagy has already posted a welcome message, and we hope you will take a few moments to join him in discussion.
Once again, welcome to "The Ancient Greek Hero!"
All the best,
Claudia Filos
Editor of Content and Social Media for The Ancient Greek Hero

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013



The CB22x team hard at work on "The Ancient Greek Hero."

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跟格里格在一起备课的是俺的大哥，耶。。。
不过，让俺更留意的是那个地毯，opps...

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Welcome to students from all over the world! The student body of CB22x "The Ancient Greek Hero" currently includes enrollees from over 150 countries. The heat map above shows where you and your fellow students hail from, and in what numbers, as of the end of February.

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March 3, 2013
The textbooks will be available soon!

Please accept our apologies for the delay in making The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours and the Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Texts in English Translation available on the course website. As we've noted in the forums, these texts are being revised and updated specifically for your use.

These texts should be available before the end of this week. Once posted, they will be accessible from the primary navigation bar at the top of the page.

Thank you very much for your patience!

--CB22x Staff

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MARCH 7, 2013
Thank you so much for your beautiful responses to my first post on the course discussion board! My team and I have been moved by the breadth of your interests, your kind words in support of each other, and your enthusiasm for learning. Our community currently brings together over twenty thousand individuals from all over the world of every age and occupation. At least one of us is a high school student, and one a fearless learner in his ninth decade. We are artists and engineers from Australia and Brooklyn, New York. Some of us are nervous and some are eager. Regardless, in a few short days we will begin our adventure together.
Since many of you have expressed a desire to start reading, we have put together a brief list of scholarship, videos, and resources related to our work. The course has been designed for readers with absolutely no previous experience in the subject area, so this is entirely optional. I am simply sharing supplementary material for those of you who are ready to begin thinking and reading about topics related to ancient Greek poetics.
Most importantly, I want to share two brief videos clips. The first clip once again considers Nietzsche and the art of slow reading. The second presents some thoughts about understanding Homeric poetry.
We hope these prove helpful, and we look forward to sharing more with you in the days to come.
All the best,
Gregory Nagy

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MARCH 8, 2013

We are so excited that several student groups related to the course are already popping up on various social media platforms. We would like to thank these students for their enthusiasm and share the links to those accounts as well as to the Facebook, Google+, and Twitter accounts our staff has created for the course. We would like to use our social media accounts to distribute supplementary content and news to student accounts and groups. I hope we can all work together to create thriving intellectual communities that extend beyond the boundaries of this course. But please note, all participation on any social media forum is 100% optional. All the required content will be available via the course website.

Below are the links we have found to date:

Staff-created Accounts:
The Ancient Greek Hero on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheAncientGreekHero
The Ancient Greek Hero on Google+: https://plus.google.com/communities/107397536757277586726
The Ancient Greek Hero on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AncGreekHero

Student-created accounts (general):
Facebook (admin Praveen Kumar): https://www.facebook.com/groups/579037368779644/
Facebook (admin Niranjan Phuyal): http://www.facebook.com/groups/CB22x/
Google+ (moderator Nick Garnett): https://plus.google.com/communities/110965042286932197791

Student-created, Language-based groups:
Portuguese-language study group on Facebook (admin: Fernanda Lopes de Oliveira): https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheAncientGreekHeroPT/
Spanish-language study group (admin: Yurena Gonzalez): https://www.facebook.com/groups/191057684372354/

We would also encourage and support your self organization around specific topics, goals, or authors, such as Performance, Writing, or Homer. In fact, members of our team have expertise in a variety of areas and would be willing to facilitate discussion around related interest groups. For instance, Kevin McGrath, the Vice Chair of our Board of Readers, has spent many years studying Indic epic and can help us think about how the Iliad can often illuminate what we read in the Mahabharata, and vice-versa.

If you form a group as the course progresses, please let us know and we will help share the news with the larger community. Or, if you prefer to stay small, we can still be sure to share our news with you.

Wishing you all the best,
Claudia Filos
Editor of Content and Social Media for The Ancient Greek Hero

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March 11, 2013
SYLLABUS CHANGE

Please not that there has been a change to the course Syllabus. Hour 0 and Hour 1 will now be presented separately, with Hour 0 being scheduled for release on March 13 (day one of the course).

The assignments for the first two class sessions are as follows:

Hour 0

Read "Introduction to the Book" and "Introduction to Homeric Poetry" in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (h24h).
Slow reading in h24h: Hour 0 Texts A through H (= 8 passages)
Fast reading in the Sourcebook: Iliad scroll I

Hour 1

Slow reading in h24h: Hour 1 Texts A through C (= 3 passages), concentrating on Text C
Fast reading in the Sourcebook: Iliad scroll I

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March 13, 2013
WELCOME TO CB22x, 'THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO'

The course is live as of 5:00am EDT on March 13, 2013. You can find the first installment of CB22x, entitled Hour 0, under the Courseware tab above.

The textbooks for the course are now available here on the website, free of charge. They are located at the far right of the main navigation menu at the top of the page. Additionally, an update to the syllabus was made shortly before launch. Please scroll down on this page to see a post about that update, or click the Syllabus tab above.

Once again, welcome to 'The Ancient Greek Hero.' We're so glad you're joining us!

--CB22x Course Team

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谢谢机器人Robot。。。

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MARCH 12, 2013

Welcome to Day 1 of CB22x 'The Ancient Greek Hero'!

We're delighted you've chosen to join us on this journey. Below is some important information about the course:

• The textbooks, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours and the Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Texts, are now available! They can be found under the "H24H" and "Sourcebook" tabs in the main navigation bar at the top of the page.
• The dialogue videos for Hour 0 have been posted! You can access them under the "Courseware" tab in the main navigation bar. For this first session, you are asked to read "Introduction to the Book" and "Introduction to Homeric Poetry" (= Hour 0) in h24h and to begin a fast-reading of Iliad scroll I. All reading assignments for Hours 0 through 24 are available in the course Syllabus.
• Beginning on Monday, March 18, two Hours of the course will be released per week (one on Monday, and one on Thursday). We strongly recommend completing the reading assignments for each Hour before watching the videos.
• The first Assessments will accompany Hour 1. These will be made up of brief Question sets and lengthier Text Annotation exercises. Both are designed to promote engagement with the texts and concepts we are studying in this course. An explanation of how to negotiate the Annotation exercises will be available on the "Course Info" page prior to the release of Hour 1.

As always, further announcements will be posted to the "Course Info" page. We will be happy to answer questions in the course discussion forums . Once again, thank you for being part of this grand adventure!

Sincerely,

CB22x Course Staff

Special Note:

The support of friends and family can be helpful in succeeding in online courses. HarvardX would like to make you aware of Course Hero, a program that allows you to select a friend or family member to be your supporter and encourage you to reach your highest potential in this course.  Click here to identify a friend or family member to be your 'Course Hero'.

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MARCH 17, 2013

Important Note on the Courseware Video Player
It's come to our attention through the class discussion boards that many participants may not be seeing all of the course videos. For example, Hour 0 contains 8 videos, and Hour 1 has 11 videos. The linear layout of the content within sections, shown in the diagram below, can be tricky, so it's important that you take special care to watch, read, or complete everything on each page.

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MARCH 24, 2013

ACTIVITIES FOR HOUR 2
(available at March 25 at 5:00am EDT)

Reading Assignments

• Slow reading in h24h: Hour 2 Texts A through E (= 5 passages), concentrating on Text E
• Fast reading in Sourcebook: Iliad scrolls III, VI, and IX

Videos
(11 total)

• Introduction to Hour 2 (one video, on this page)
• Hour 2, Texts A-B (one video)
• Hour 2, Text C (one video)
• Hour 2, Text D (one video)
• Oral Poetry: A Living Tradition (two videos)
• Hour 2, Text E (two videos)
• Blade Runner, Replicants, and Total Recall (three videos)

Assessments
(2 sets of 4)

• Hour 2 Question Set (four questions)
• Hour 2 Close Reading Exercise (four questions)

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MARCH 24, 2013

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours  is now available for download in epub form. It can be accessed at  this link  .

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MARCH 31, 2013

ACTIVITIES FOR HOUR 3 (available April 1 at 5:00am EDT)
Hour 3
Slow reading in h24h: Hour 3 Texts A through F (= 6 passages), concentrating on Text D
Fast reading in Sourcebook: Iliad scrolls XV (306–404, 592-746), XVI, XVII (1-69, 188-232, 366-455, 673-751) Videos (9 total)
Hour 3: Achilles and the Poetics of Lament (one video, on this page)
A Man of Constant Sorrow: Hour 3 Text A (one video)
Achilles and Penthesileia the Amazon: Hour 3, Text B (one video)
Singing Laments (one video)
A Conventional Gesture in Women's Laments: Hour 3, Text C (one video)
The Laments of Ch'unhyang (one video)
The First Lament of Andromache: Hour 3, Text D (one video)
What Achilles Sang: Hour 3, Text E (one video)
The Song of Kleopatra: Hour 3, Text F (one video)
Assessments
Hour 3 Question Set (four questions)
Hour 3 Close Reading Exercise (four two-part questions plus one discussion question)