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Herodotus and a courtesan from Naucratis
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-01)
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, III: Is ‘Athena’ the Name of a Person or of a Place?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-05-01)
In asking myself whether the Greek proper noun Athḗnē is the name of a person, that is, the goddess known to us as Athena, or the name of a place, that is, the city known to us as Athens, I venture into a way of thinking ...
The apotheosis of Hēraklēs on Olympus and the mythological origins of the Olympics
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-12)
As I indicated in the previous posting, in Classical Inquiries 2019.07.06 (at II-G5), the aim of the brief follow-up essay that I offer here in the present posting, 2019.07.12, is to connect a myth about the apotheosis of ...
An Experiment in the Making of a Homer Commentary
(2015-05-27)
This posting, 2015.05.27, continues where I left off in a previous posting, 2015.04.10. There I translated and then analyzed the text of the first song of Demodokos, contained in verses 72–83 of Odyssey 8, which I described ...
A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-04-20)
On Ariadne, draft of a new Foreword to a 1970 work of Robert T. Teske on a latent divinity
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-03-29)
Sensations of agony and ecstasy while indexing a book about ancient Greek heroes
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-01)
Authors who opt to write their own general index for their own book are conventionally instructed to concentrate on those things that their readers will want to look up in the book. Having just finished writing such an ...
Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-11-09)
This essay is linked with a lengthy book I published in 2015, Masterpieces of Metonymy. There I argued that metonymy and metaphor, as they are known in verbal art, are analogous respectively to horizontal and vertical ...
What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the temple of Zeus in Olympia
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-03-22)
I have by now lost count of how many times in my life I have visited the Museum at Olympia. And I cannot keep track of knowing what different things I remembered to view, or forgot to view, each time I was there. But there ...
Thoughts about modulations in color from purple to red and from purple to blue while previewing a seminal work by Morris Silver, with afterthoughts about the color yellow
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-02)
Over many weeks now I have been previewing, not yet reviewing, a heretofore unpublished work by Morris Silver, The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age. This work, by an economist whose vast ...