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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 ...
Some jottings on the pronouncements of the Delphic Oracle
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-11-03)
Poetics of Repetition in Homer
(Harvard Univeristy, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005)
Repetition in Homeric poetry is a matter of performance, not only composition. I argue that this observation applies to the Homeric phenomenon of “repeated utterances.”
This argument is part of a larger project, which ...
How a girl dances in an Aeolic way, whether she is wearing sandals or not
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-13)
In this brief essay, I consider again the beautiful sandals worn by the girl from Lesbos who is described in a song of Anacreon that I analyzed in my previous essay for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2021.02.06). Even though ...
Sappho’s looks, and how Sappho looks at beauty
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-07-12)
Reading the words of Sappho’s songs, we cannot picture her looks, that is, we cannot imagine what she looked like—I say it here in colloquial English. But we can readily imagine what she looked at—especially the beautiful ...
Thoughts about heroes, athletes, poetry
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-10)
Blade Runner—further thoughts
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-29)
On the Idea of Dead Poets as Imagined by T. S. Eliot, Compared With Ideas About Reperformance, Part I
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-17)
How Even a Classical Homer Might Save From Harm the Heroic Glory of Ajax
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-05-17)
From the heavenly to the earthy and back, variations on a theme of love-on-wings in Song 1 of Sappho and elsewhere
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-12-18)
In this essay, I start by considering the word strouthoi, conventionally translated as ‘sparrows’, in Song 1 of Sappho. At line 10, these birds are seen at the moment when they take wing and fly off. They are pulling behind ...