Browsing by Author "Nagy, Gregory"
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The apotheosis of Hēraklēs on Olympus and the mythological origins of the Olympics
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-12)As I indicated in the previous posting, in Classical Inquiries 2019.07.06 (at II-G5), the aim of the brief follow-up essay that I offer here in the present posting, 2019.07.12, is to connect a myth about the apotheosis of ... -
Are Zeus and Hērā a dysfunctional couple?
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-07-27)A sampling of comments on the Iliad and Odyssey includes an attempt of mine to analyze a scene in Iliad 14 where Hērā has a sexual encounter with Zeus on the heights of Mount Ida. In my comments on the wording of the goddess ... -
Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 1
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-11-27) -
Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 2
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Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 3
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Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 4
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-02-04)In the postings for 2015.11.27 and 2016.01.21 and 2016.01.28, I translated and commented on Chapters 1 and 2 and 3 of Aristotle’s Poetics. In the posting here for 2016.02.04, I continue by translating and commenting on ... -
Artemis and a massacre at the Tree of Life
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Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar
Nagy, Gregory (Oxford University Press, 2011)This chapter analyses the myths about the river-god Asopos and his daughters, the Asopid nymphs, as reflected in the Aeginetan odes of Pindar and in other sources. It is argued that these myths accommodated political ... -
Back and forth from general to special kinds of erotic love, further variations on a theme of love-on-wings in Song 1 of Sappho and elsewhere
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-12-25)In Song 1 of Sappho, as our mind’s eye views Aphrodite, goddess of erotic love, at the moment when she starts driving her chariot pulled by birds called strouthoi and travels with the speed of light, in a miraculous instant, ... -
The Barley Cakes of Sosipolis and Eileithuia
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A bathtub in Pylos
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Blade Runner—further thoughts
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-29) -
Blade Runner—replicants are good to think with, while thinking about ancient Greek heroes
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A brief note about the picturing of apples in the poetics of Sappho
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-03-29)In the course of recent communications with my dear colleague Lucia Athanassaki, she has generously shared with me a wealth of further insights and bibliography concerning the poetics of Sappho as imitated by Catullus. In ... -
Can Sappho be freed from receivership? Part One
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-07-19)In this essay, I make a distinction between, on the one hand, what I describe as a receivership of Sappho in the world of Classics today and, on the other hand, the variegated reception of Sappho in the world of ancient ... -
Can Sappho be freed from receivership? Part Two
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-07-26)Continuing the essay that started with Part One, I consider once again here in Part Two the first word in Song 1 of Sappho, where the goddess Aphrodite is invoked as poikiló-thronos, and I return once again to my proposed ... -
Can we think of Centaurs as a species?
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-05-03)Ιn three previous essays posted in Classical Inquiries, 2019.04.26, 2019.04.19 and 2019.03.22, I analyzed myths about Centaurs. Since they were pictured as half-man and half-horse, we could nowadays think of them as monsters. ... -
Cataclysm and Ecpyrosis, two symmetrical actions of Zeus as sky-god
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Cato's daughter Porcia has herself a really good cry
Nagy, Gregory (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-08-12)The lamentations that the sisters and the wife of Cato had performed in mourning for him are symmetrical, in their dramatic force, to the lamentations that could have been performed by Porcia, daughter of Cato, for her ... -
Ch’unhyang—further typological comparisons from late-Chosŏn Korean song culture and modern Korean film culture
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-29)Continuing my commentary on the film Ch’unhyang as a point of typological comparison, I will compare here, more broadly, the visual art of film-making with the verbal art of poetry and song as we see that art at work in ...