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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 ...
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
(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, ...
About Ann Bergren
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-05-18)
Sappho's 'fire under the skin' and the erotic syntax of an epigram by Posidippus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-08)
Thinking Iranian, Rethinking Greek
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-04-19)
What do you first think of when we hear the words Iranian and Greek spoken in the same breath by anyone today? I bet you would be thinking, in a vague sort of way, about the fact that Iranians and Greeks were in ancient ...
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 ...
Erotic desecration and sacralization in Greek myth and ritual
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-01)
Andromache and her virtuosity as a singer of laments in the Homeric Iliad, Part I
(Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-03-06)
Are Zeus and Hērā a dysfunctional couple?
(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 ...
A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1
(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 ...