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Text and reperformance: do you really need a text for your reperformance?
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The theo-eroticism of mythmaking about Aphrodite’s love for boys like Adonis
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-01-09)In a previous study, I used the term theo-eroticism as a way of describing a kind of sexuality that gets transformed into something sublime by way of blending eroticism with divinity. In line with terminology used by ... -
Things noted during eight days of travel-study in Greece, 2016.06.10-18
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Things noted during five days of travel-study in Greece, 2016.03.13-18
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-03-24)During the five full days of contact time for myself and the participants of the 2016 Harvard Spring Break travel-study program (who are all listed at the conclusion of my posting for 2016.03.16), I tried each day to focus ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology I, Hēraklēs as athlete
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-26)There is no single way to think comparatively about mythology—or about anything else. And Greek mythology is surely no exception. In my own work on mythology in general and on Greek mythology in particular, I have found ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology II, Hēraklēs as an ‘Indo- European’ hero
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-08-02)In the posting for 2019.07.26, I argued that the role of the Greek hero Hēraklēs as a boxer was cognate with the role of the Scandinavian hero Starkaðr as, likewise, a boxer. In using the term “cognate,” I was saying, in ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology III, Hēraklēs compared to a hero of the Mahābhārata
(2019-08-08)So far, I have been comparing Greek myths about the hero Hēraklēs with Old Norse myths about the hero Starkaðr, concentrating on details that these myths have in common. Now I add to the comparison some further details to ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology IV, Reconstructing Hēraklēs backward in time
(2019-08-15)As I have argued in the posting for 2019.07.26, “Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology I” (hereafter TC I), the myths about the Greek hero Hēraklēs and the Scandinavian hero Starkaðr are cognate, verbalized in cognate ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology IX, Further rough patches for Hēraklēs
(2019-09-20)Picking up from where I left off in my essay TC VIII in Classical Inquiries 2019.09.13, I continue here in TC IX with further observations about difficulties or “rough patches” to be encountered in any attempt to reconstruct ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology V, Reconstructing Hēraklēs forward in time
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-08-22)Previously, in “Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology IV,” hereafter abbreviated as TC IV, I was reconstructing the mythological persona of the Greek hero Hēraklēs by tracing him backward in time, back to the earliest ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VI, A Mycenaean phase in the reception of myths about Hēraklēs
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-08-30)I have already commented on a set of myths known as the twelve Labors of Hēraklēs, and also on a multitude of further myths that I describe as the sub-Labors of the hero. In my posting for 2019.08.15, abbreviated here ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VII, Greek mythological models for prototyping Hēraklēs
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-09-06)While analyzing the myths about the Labors and sub-Labors of Hēraklēs in essays TC I–VI, I have up to now focused on those heroic feats where our Strong Man has clearly been acting alone. Here in TC VII, I will analyze two ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VIII, Some rough patches along the way toward a prototyping of Hēraklēs
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-09-13)Previously, at TC VII §7, I observed that the leveling-out and the smoothing-over of differences in the various different roles of Hēraklēs in various different tellings of ancient myths about this hero could lead not only ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology X, A Homeric lens for viewing Hēraklēs
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-09-27)This essay, for which I give the abbreviated title TC X, connects in a special way with nine previous essays posted in Classical Inquiries, TC I through IX, which are all interconnected in their focusing on myths about the ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XI, Homeric marginalizations of Hēraklēs as an epic hero
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-04)This essay, dated 2019.10.04, for which I give the abbreviated title TC XI, continues from the essay TC X, dated 2019.09.27, the subtitle for which was “A Homeric lens for viewing Hēraklēs.” In the subtitle for TC XI here, ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XII, Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-11)The glory days of Tiryns, a stronghold that once controlled access to Mycenae from the sea, came to an end toward the end of the second millennium BCE, that is, around the same time that marked the collapse of the Mycenaean ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIII, with a focus on the role of Hēraklēs as kingmaker
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-18)In my essay for 2019.10.11, “Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns,” I focused on references in Greek myth to the stationing of Hēraklēs at the Cyclopean stronghold of Tiryns in the context of the Labors that this ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIV, with a focus on the role of Hēraklēs as a leader of fighting men
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-25)In my essay for 2019.10.18, I argued that the role of Hēraklēs as a leader of fighting men is interchangeable in Greek myth with his wider role as a leader of people in general. And then, toward the end of that same essay, ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIX, a post-Mycenaean view of Hēraklēs as a performer of his Labors
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-01)For my brief essay here, TC XIX in Classical Inquiries, I return to an analysis, started at §4 of TC V, 2019.08.22, centering on a myth that tells how the hero Hēraklēs succeeded in clearing the stables of Augeias, king ... -
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XV, with a focus on Hēraklēs of Tiryns as military leader of the Mycenaean Empire
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-31)While analyzing comparatively the myths about Hēraklēs as a leader of people in general and of military expeditions in particular, I have outlined in the essay TC XII, 2019.10.11, the special relevance of Tiryns, a ...