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A question of “reception”: how could Homer ever outlive his own moments of performance?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-08-30)In the cover illustration for this essay, a painter is picturing Homer at a moment of performance. Or, I could even say that we see Homer here in—not just at—a moment of performance. Homer sings, accompanying himself on ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, I: Did Athena, Goddess of Athens, Belong Only to the Athenians?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-04-17)In conversations about the ancient world, my sorely-missed friend Emily Vermeule was fond of asking this rhetorical question: in Mycenaean times, was Athena a goddess who was worshipped only in Athens? And there can be ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, II: In Mycenaean Times, Was Athena a Goddess Who Was Worshipped Only in Athens?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-04-24)In classical Athenian visual art, we find representations of the goddess Athena in the act of conveying the hero Hēraklēs to Olympus in her chariot, as we see in the illustration that I have chosen as the cover for this ... -
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 ... -
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, IV: Is Athena, Viewed Theologically, a Person?
(2020-05-08)In the previous posting, Classical Inquiries 2020.05.01, I asked this question: is “Athena” the name of a person or of a place? And my answer was: “Athena” is the name of a place that we know as Athens. I backed up that ... -
A re-invocation of the Muse for the Homeric Iliad
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-16)Working on A sampling of comments on the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, I have made revisions, concentrating on the need to fill some gaps in my analysis of Homeric poetry. Here I focus on a set of revisions centering on the ... -
A reader for travel-study in Greece
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-03-07)The essays in this reader are designed to supplement visits by travelstudy groups to sites and museums in Greece. Each essay focuses on things to seeor at least to note if they cannot be seenat sites to be visited. In ... -
Revisiting Plato’s Rhapsody: A contribution to a colloquium about Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-06-26)The text of this essay, as posted here in Classical Inquiries 2020.06.26, is a pre-edited version of my contribution to an online colloquium, Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato, the collected essays for which will reside in ... -
Revisiting the question of etymology and essence
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A Roll of the Dice for Ajax
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Sacred Space as a frame for lyric occasions: The case of the Mnesiepes Inscription and other possible cases
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The sad story of a priestess in love: a resacralizing of sex in Greek myth and ritual
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A sampling of comments on Pindar Isthmian 8
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A Sampling of Comments on Pindar Nemean 7
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A sampling of comments on Pindar Olympian 4: highlighting Thalia as one of the three ‘Graces’
(Harvard University. Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-03-06)The three ‘Graces’ or Khárites, personifications of kháris, a noun often translated in a generalizing way as ‘grace’, are reverently addressed in a victory ode of Pindar, Olympian 14, as presiding goddesses of the city of ... -
A sampling of comments on Pindar Pythian 6
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A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides
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A sampling of comments on the Iliad and Odyssey
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Sappho and Aesop, distinctions between diachronic and historical perspectives
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-03-23)This short paper is derived from a lengthy article of mine, the first version of which was published online in 2011.[1] An abbreviated second version was published in a book edited by José M. González in 2015.[2] The title ... -
Sappho and mythmaking in the context of an Aeolian-Ionian poetic Sprachbund
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-10-08)