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The Vow of Socrates
(2015-04-17)
In Plato’s Phaedo 118a, we read this description of the very last seconds before Socrates died from the poison that pervaded his body after he was forced to drink the potion of hemlock that the State had measured out for ...
Sappho's 'fire under the skin' and the erotic syntax of an epigram by Posidippus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-08)
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)
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 ...
An experiment in combining visual art with translations of Sappho, Part 2
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-11-09)
Homo ludens in the world of ancient Greek verbal art
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-15)
A historical Cato caught in the vortex of an ancient biography
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-08-05)
Renaissance Opera is notorious for taking liberties with the facts in its portrayal of historical characters. Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica is no exception. My presentation explores here some strikingly comparable situations in ...
Some imitations of Pindar and Sappho by Horace
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-12-31)
Horace’s imitations of Sappho in Ode 4.1 and of Pindar in Ode 4.2 show his deep understanding of archaic Greek lyric poetry. Particularly striking is his visualization of Icarus in Ode 4.2 as a negative model for such ...