Browsing by FAS Department "The Classics"
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Beneath our feet: a review of "Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld", by Salomon Kroonenberg
(Times Literary Supplement, 2014) -
A Bibulous Couch ([Verg.] Copa 5-6)?
(University of Chicago Press, 1991) -
Blade Runner—further thoughts
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-29) -
Blade Runner—replicants are good to think with, while thinking about ancient Greek heroes
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-29) -
The Books of Numa: Writing, Intellectuals and the Making of Roman Religion
(2013-09-30)This dissertation provides an intellectual and social history of learned writing on Roman religious culture during the late Republic and early Empire. I examine the ways in which an elite learned literature, for which I ... -
A Bouquet of Wisdom and Invective: Houghton MS. Lat 300
(Harvard University Library, 1990) -
Browsing in the Western Stacks
(Harvard University Library, 1995) -
Building Community Across the Battle-Lines: The Truce in Iliad 3 and 4
(Verlag Antike, 2012) -
Callimachus Back in Rome
(Egbert Forsten, 1993) -
Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman Poetry
(Cambridge University Press, 1983) -
Can Sappho be freed from receivership? Part One
(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
(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?
(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. ... -
Cato's daughter Porcia has herself a really good cry
(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 ... -
Catullus and the Polemics of Poetic Reference (Poem 64.1-18)
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982) -
The Choral Architecture of Pindar’s Eighth Paean
(2016)This paper argues that the interplay between the narrative and performance of Pindar’s eighth paean embeds it within the physical environment of Delphi, at the site of the Alcmaeonid temple for which it was composed. The ... -
Ch’unhyang—further typological comparisons from late-Chosŏn Korean song culture and modern Korean film culture
(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 ... -
Ch’unhyang—typological comparisons from late-Chosŏn Korean song culture and modern Korean film culture
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-01) -
Cinna, Calvus, and the Ciris
(Cambridge University Press, 1981)