Robot

要跟上这门课程确实有一定难度。
毕竟咱们知道的时候已经错过了前面的 3讲，加上导论就是4讲。
不过，纳吉教授已经年过七旬（他是1942年生人），这门课程由他亲自主讲对我们来说也当是“时不再来”的吧。。。

目前是一个缺乏大师的时代，如果我们还能跟上趟，在这两三个月内格外辛苦也是值得的。

注册之后看了看，这门课程还是比较专业的。但是大家如果不是冲结业证书而去，我想参与其间总是会有收获的。

比如讲，我们专修民间文学，如果跟上这门课程就能很好地理解什么是“英雄叙事”，在比较研究的视野中多少还是会深化我们对英雄叙事的阐释。。。
登录之后觉得来自世界各地的学生都有不同的取向，但我们如果参与其间能否贡献一些什么呢？
我想还是中国史诗（或许英雄叙事）的多样性吧？
个人认为：大家不必去纠缠自己的古典学基础，“参与”二字可能更为重要。
毕竟不论任何一个时代都是需要故事讲述的，“英雄”或“英雄叙事”的根基所在吧？
纳吉教授的课程就在于解释何谓“英雄”，何谓今天的人类（价值取向）？
感兴趣的同学就去注册吧，我们也不是为了一纸证书。

再啰嗦一句：
去年参加了国际史诗峰会，觉得纳吉老先生真是很“可耐”，他跟平常的古典学家不一样，是有人文情怀的。

silver

今天哈佛那边发来信息。
注册该课程的部分中国同学（境外留学生）已经发起将课程视频的字幕转换为中文。
由于哈佛和麻省理工的edX尚无推出中文的前例，这一努力可能要等课程结束之后方能实现。
大家目前还是努力跟进每个课时的英文教学吧，也算练练英语。。。

silver

大家留意哈： 美国时间4月8日推出第4个课时的教学内容：Updated Timeline：Hour 4 will be posted Monday, April 8。详情请跟踪HarvardX的课程信息。http://t.cn/zTyF9GM （需要注册才能看到的哈）

silver

February 7, 2013
Welcome to the first edX offering of CB22x: The Ancient Greek Hero! We trust you will find this introduction (or reintroduction) to the timeless classics of Greek oral and literary tradition both engaging and rewarding.

In the coming days, several resources will be made available to you here on the course website. These include a detailed Syllabus, an interactive Discussion Forum, and the two textbooks required for the course, both of which will be provided to you in electronic format free of charge.

Additionally, Professor Nagy has posted an important document in which he details the material covered in "The Ancient Greek Hero," and offers advice on how to get the most out of your experience in the course. This letter of advice and encouragement is available under the tab labeled "Advice for Students" at the top of the page. The information in this document will help clarify the assigments listed on the syllabus, while also introducing you to concepts and techniques used in this highly comparative survey of classical Greek literature.

More information will be posted soon. Until then, welcome once again to CB22x! We're very glad you're joining us!

–The HeroesX Staff

silver

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

silver

FEBRUARY 27, 2013



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

silver

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...

silver

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.

silver

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

silver

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

silver

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

silver

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

Robot

March 12, 2013
A MESSAGE ABOUT THE COHORTS

Dear participants,

The teaching staff of this course wants it to be a human and humane experience for everyone involved, and also, to the extent that individual participants wish, a social experience that fosters communities of learning around its subject, the ancient Greek hero.

Last night, unfortunately, something happened that was contrary to both of those ideals of ours. Without warning or explanation, many thousands of participants were suddenly moved out of the cohort that they had been part of and in which they had been joining discussion and into another forum.

What happened was this: the software team tried to fix an error that had placed several thousands of you in one forum (Briseis) and the rest in much smaller groups. Their thinking was that the course had not yet started, so that there was no risk. Big mistake.

We need to and are addressing the communication breakdown that caused this to happen, but we also want you to understand two things about our course.

First, we want to have the forums divided into cohorts of about 1000 students so that the staff of readers and mentors can be responsive to you and personally interact with as many of you as possible during the course. If we just had one giant forum, as other HarvardX and edX courses do, that would be next to impossible. The idea is also to make it possible for those who are less willing to engage in online conversation to feel more comfortable about doing so in a relatively smaller group. We don't know if this will work, but we definitely want to try.

Secondly, we need to let you know that we are all -- you as participants and we as staff members -- experimental subjects in this course. Even though it has been taught over many years on various platforms, the course has never been done on a scale like this. We are in adventure mode, and there will be bumps in the road as we and the software mature and develop. This is definitely exciting, but it can also produce breakdowns like this one. For instance, we can anticipate that when the course actually launches tomorrow morning at 5 am EDT, there may be problems with the servers, and the edX site may be unavailable at times. We hope that doesn't happen, and we are doing our best to be proactive and will try to warn you about such problems before they happen, but there will be problems like this, of that we can be sure, from time to time.
We dearly hope you can keep your patience with us as we proceed.

All best wishes,
Greg Nagy and Lenny Muellner

Robot

俺来搭把手，虽然不是专门研究史诗传统的人。希望大家都能帮忙。
或者通过您认为适当的方式。。。

silver

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