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Jaufré Rudel, his ‘distant love’, and the death of the distant lover in his vida
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-08-23)In the medieval textual tradition recording the songs of a troubadour named Jaufré Rudel, who dates back to the 12th century BCE, we read references in his Song 5 to ‘a distant love’, un amor de loing, experienced by the ... -
Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part II
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Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part III
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Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part IV
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Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part V
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-04-21)This posting of 2016.04.20 is Part V of what I started in the postings of 2016.03.09, 2016.03.31, 2016.04.07, and 2016.04.14, which were Parts I and II and III and IV. In these postings, I preview the text of a foreword I ... -
Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part VI
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-04-28)This posting of 2016.04.28 is Part VI of what I started in the postings of 2016.03.09, 2016.03.31, 2016.04.07, 2016.04.14, and 2016.04.21, which were Parts I and II and III and IV and V. In these postings, I preview the ... -
Just to look at all the shining bronze here, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven: Seeing bronze in the ancient Greek world
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-02-18)In Odyssey 4, as soon as the young hero Telemachus arrives as a visitor to Sparta, home of king Menelaos and his queen Helen, he feasts his eyes on all the shining splendor of their royal palace. As he takes it all in, he ... -
The Last Words of Socrates at the Place Where He Died
(2015-03-27)In H24H 24§45, I quote and analyze the passage in Plato’s Phaedo 117a–118a where Socrates dies. His last words, as transmitted by Plato, are directed at all those who have followed Socrates—and who have had the unforgettable ... -
Learning to sing, and a dead master of song
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Lelantine War, Eretria and Chalkis, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-01)This post is about a poetic competition or Certamen ‘Contest’ that took place, story has it, between Homer and Hesiod. In all attested versions of the story, Hesiod won and Homer lost. In some versions, as we will see, the ... -
The Library as a garden of the Muses
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-06-05)In the Candide of Voltaire, first published in 1759, the last words famously read: mais il faut cultiver notre jardin ‘but we must cultivate our garden’. Following such a mandate, I return here to cultivate a garden of my ... -
"Life of Homer" myths as evidence for the reception of Homer
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-12-18)This inquiry centers on the surviving texts of ‘Life of Homer’ narrative traditions, to which I refer simply as Lives of Homer. These Lives, I argue, can be read as sources of historical information about the reception of ... -
Longinus and a theological view of Zeus as god of the sky
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Looking for references to Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings: preliminary comments
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-30)In this essay, I am not looking for references to the text of Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings. Instead, I look merely for traces of pictorial references to the contents of these songs, especially as performed in ... -
Looking through rose-colored glasses while sailing on a sacred journey
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-03)After Theseus dives into the depths of the sea, the sea goddess Amphitrite welcomes him, enveloping the hero in a purple robe (line 112) and crowning his head of hair with a garland made of roses (line 116: ῥόδοις)—a ... -
Mages and Ionians
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Martin Scorsese, master of fusing the visual art of film with other media: a brief example
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Mērionēs Rides Again: An Alternative Model for a Heroic Charioteer
(2015-05-01)The date for my putting together a posting for this week, 2015.04.30, coincides with the date of a special day set aside for celebrating the life and accomplishments of Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, whose premature death on ...