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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 ...
On Herakles as a model for the athlete Milo of Croton
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-05-10)
About a perfect start for a world-wide web of song
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-08-07)
Homeric poetry, at a pivotal moment where it represents the making of Homeric poetry itself, pictures a blind singer of tales in the act of starting his song. The singer is shown in the act of ‘starting from a thread [oimē] ...
On weaving and sewing as metaphors for ancient Greek verbal arts
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-01-19)
Echoes of Sappho in two epigrams of Posidippus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-11-19)
Epigrams 52 and 55 of Posidippus, a poet who flourished in the third century BCE, contain references to the songs of Sappho. That is what I argue here. Further, I argue that these references seem to be evoking the main ...
Trying to read the Will of Zeus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-05-26)
How the first word in Song 1 of Sappho is relevant to her reception in the ancient world—and to various different ways of thinking about the Greek word hetairā
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-01-15)
In this essay, extracting what I have learned about the meaning of the first word in Song 1 of Sappho in the overall context of studying, in previous essays, the ancient reception of Sappho, I will concentrate on the erotic ...
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XII, Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-11)
The glory days of Tiryns, a stronghold that once controlled access to Mycenae from the sea, came to an end toward the end of the second millennium BCE, that is, around the same time that marked the collapse of the Mycenaean ...