Browsing CHS Classical Inquiries by Title
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The Oath of the Ephebes as a symbol of democracy—and of environmentalism
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Olympus as mountain and Olympia as venue for the Olympics: a question about the naming of these places
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-06)The question is, can we connect the name for Mount Olympus with the name for Olympia, the place where the festival of the Olympics was traditionally celebrated every four years? Aiming for a unified answer to this question, ... -
On a fable about the hawk as a strongman
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-06-21)n what is generally agreed to be the earliest attestation of a fable in Greek literature, we read about a hawk that has just captured another bird. The fable is embedded in the Hesiodic Works and Days, lines 202–212, where ... -
On a new book by Richard P. Martin, draft of a Foreword written by an admiring editor
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On a rhetoric of dreaming: thoughts about a Freudian insight of Emile Benveniste
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On a ‘guessing song’ sung by Cherubino in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro
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On Ariadne, draft of a new Foreword to a 1970 work of Robert T. Teske on a latent divinity
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On cases of wolfish rage experienced by Greek heroes
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On Herakles as a model for the athlete Milo of Croton
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On Ingmar Bergman's Queen of the Night in his film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-10-26) -
On some mystifying language used by Pausanias in referring to the Eleusinian Mysteries
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-07-10)I have run into a problem in trying to come up with an adequate translation of Pausanias when he talks about the Eleusinian Mysteries. Part of the problem, I think, is that Pausanias himself is mystifying in his language ... -
On the eclipse of Ajax as a most eligible suitor of Helen
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-14)In fragments from Hesiodic poetry, we read that the hero Ajax was one of many heroes who converged on Sparta to compete with each other as rival suitors of a most eligible bride, Helen, daughter of Zeus. Some of these ... -
On the festival of the goddess Hērā at the Hēraion overlooking the Plain of Argos
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-03-20) -
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) -
On the idea of dead poets as imagined by T. S. Eliot, compared with ideas about reperformance, Part II
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On the Idea of Dead Poets as Imagined by T. S. Eliot, Compared With Ideas About Reperformance, Part III
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On the paraphrase of Iliad 1.012-042 in Plato's Republic 3.393d-394a
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-09-23) -
On the reception of Sappho as a personal experience to be expressed in pictures: examples from two vase paintings produced in classical Athens, fifth century BCE
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-11-06)The two images that I mention in the title of this essay are line drawings of close-ups taken from two separate vase paintings created by an artist known to art historians as the Meidias Painter, whose career as a vase ... -
On Traces of Hero-Cults for Socrates and Plato
(2015-04-02)I start by citing a most important article by Stephen White: White, S. A. 2000. “Socrates at Colonus: A Hero for the Academy.” Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (ed. N. D. Smith and P. Woodruff) 151–75. ...