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    • Creek People 

      Dodson, Thomas A (Badger Press, 2012)
    • A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-17)
      The concept of “the Cretan Odyssey”—or, better, “a Cretan Odyssey”—is reflected in the “lying tales” of Odysseus in the Odyssey. These tales give the medium of Homeric poetry an opportunity to open windows into an Odyssey ...
    • A Cretan Odyssey, Part 2 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-24)
      In the posting for 2015.09.17, I showed what can be reconstructed as a Minoan­ Mycenaean version of Ariadne. Here in the posting for 2015.09.24, I now turn to later versions, as reflected especially in the visual arts of ...
    • Cross-Border Data Access Reform: A Primer on the Proposed U.S.-U.K. Agreement 

      Lin, Tiffany C; Fidler, Mailyn Joy Rogge (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society., 2017)
    • Crossing Boundaries Between Humanities and Informatics: The Case of Egyptian Papyri 

      Hertel, Elena L.; Unter, Stephan M.; Gabler, Kathrin; Loprieno, Antonio (2021)
    • Crown Jewel of the Fleet: Design, Construction, and Use of the Seagoing Balsa of the Pre-Columbian Andean Coast 

      Emanuel, Jeffrey P. (International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, 2012)
      The seaworthiness of the balsa sailing raft, and the seafaring aptitude of those who built and sailed it, has been the subject of critically biased, often conflicting accounts over the nearly five centuries since contact. ...
    • Crying at sunset on the eve of the Olympics 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-08-28)
      What we see here in the photograph I show for the cover of Classical Inquiries 2020.08.28 is a sunset at Olympia, site of the ancient Olympics. Backgrounded by the sunset and facing the camera stand three of a group of ...
    • Culture Change and Digital Technology: The NYPD under Commissioner William Bratton, 2014-2016. 

      Crawford, Susan; Adler, Laura (Berkman Klein for Internet & Society, 2016-09-12)
    • Current approaches to cervical-cancer screening 

      Sawaya, George F.; Brown, Adalsteinn D.; Washington, A. Eugene; Garber, Alan M (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2001)
    • Data as assemblage 

      Boyd, Ceilyn (Emerald, 2022-03-03)
      Purpose A definition of data called data as assemblage is presented. The definition accommodates different forms and meanings of data; emphasizes data subjects and data workers; and reflects the sociotechnical aspects of ...
    • David Lynch's Visualizations and Greek poetry, Part One: "James's song" and Song 31 of Sappho 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-09-21)
    • Death at sunset for Sappho 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-09-04)
      In a painting that goes by the title Safo, by Miguel Carbonel Selva, dated 1880, we see the figure of Sappho at the moment when she is about to leap to her death, plunging into the sea from the heights of Leukas. Her death ...
    • Death of a ram, death of Patroklos 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-07-31)
      A picture is worth a thousand words. That popular adage fits, to my mind, the picture I have chosen for the cover of my essay here—the word-count for which even exceeds a thousand, though not by much. The picture is a line ...
    • Death of a ram, Part 2 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-08-21)
      I show here a picture of a ram being sacrificed. His throat is being slit. This picture, a close-up of a painting on a fragmentary vase now housed at the Getty Museum in Malibu, was noted by Gloria Ferrari Pinney in a brief ...
    • Death of an Amazon 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-08-14)
      The picture I show for the lead illustration of this essay is a close-up of the face of a dying Amazon. She is Penthesileia, daughter of the war-god Ares. The close-up comes from an ancient Athenian vase painting that ...
    • Designing Successful Governance Groups: Lessons for Leaders from Real-World Examples 

      Budish, Ryan Hal; West, Sarah Myers; Gasser, Urs (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)
      In January 2015, the Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers (NoC) published the results of a globally coordinated, independent academic research project exploring multistakeholder governance models. Facilitated ...
    • The Devil’s Shoehorn: A case study of EAD to ArchivesSpace migration at a large university 

      Mayo, William David; Bowers, Kathryn A. (Code4Lib, 2017)
      A band of archivists and IT professionals at Harvard took on a project to convert nearly two million descriptions of archival collection components from marked-up text into the ArchivesSpace archival metadata management ...
    • Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-22)
      In my posting for Classical Inquiries 2015.10.08, I offered my own working translations of some songs attributed to Sappho, complementing my interpretations as posted for Classical Inquiries 2015.10.01. These songs, currently ...
    • Did the kings of Sparta commission texts to be written down by scribes? 

      Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-01-31)
      My brief comments here connect with what I noted in the previous posting, Classical Inquiries 2020.01.24, about scribal exchanges of letters between Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Amasis, pharaoh of Egypt. Here I explore ...