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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 ...
On a new book by Richard P. Martin, draft of a Foreword written by an admiring editor
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-12-09)
Mages and Ionians
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-06-25)
In an octopus' garden: a story from Lesbos
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-12-12)
In Plutarch’s Banquet of the Seven Sages, the author imagines a remote time when conversations took placein the city of Corinth at a dinner party hosted by the tyrant of that city, Periandros, a historical figure whoselifetime ...
Pausanias as novelist: a micro-sample
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-07-20)
In this post, dated 2018.07.20, I have put together a working retranslation of the sad story of Komaithο, priestess in love, as retold by Pausanias at 7.18.8–7.20.2. Some essential parts of this story have already been ...
About what kinds of things we may learn about mythology by reading about rituals recorded by bureaucratic scribes
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-11-22)
This essay centers on a scribe working in the Mycenaean palace at Pylos who wrote a Greek-language text about protocols involving rituals. The scribe’s text, written on a tablet of clay in a form of writing known as Linear ...
David Lynch's Visualizations and Greek poetry, Part One: "James's song" and Song 31 of Sappho
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-09-21)
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Three
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-01-25)
This posting for 2019.02.22 is Part Six of a long-term project that started with Part One at 2019.01.08. The numbering of my paragraphs here in Part Six continues from §95 of Part Five, posted 2019.02.08, continuing from ...
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 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, ...