Browsing CHS Classical Inquiries by Title
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Sacred Space as a frame for lyric occasions: The case of the Mnesiepes Inscription and other possible cases
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-28) -
The sad story of a priestess in love: a resacralizing of sex in Greek myth and ritual
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-07-13) -
A sampling of comments on Pindar Isthmian 8
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-10-05) -
A Sampling of Comments on Pindar Nemean 7
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-09-28) -
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
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-04-13) -
A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-04-20) -
A sampling of comments on the Iliad and Odyssey
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-16) -
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) -
Sappho in the role of leader
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-02-17) -
Sappho's 'fire under the skin' and the erotic syntax of an epigram by Posidippus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-08) -
Sappho, once again this time
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-02-23) -
Sappho’s Aphrodite, the goddess Chryse, and a primal ordeal suffered by Philoctetes in a tragedy of Sophocles
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-08-02)The common thread, as it were, for this essay is the meaning of the epithet poikiló-thronos gracing the goddess Aphrodite in line 1 of Sappho’s Song 1. The persona of Sappho is addressing the goddess there, and I now ... -
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 ... -
A scenario for exchanges of comments on a planned monograph about the ancient reception of Sappho
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-03-08) -
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 ... -
Seven Greek tragedies, seven simple overviews
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-12-27)I challenge myself here to write up seven elementary “plot outlines”—I call them overviews—for seven Greek tragedies: (1) Agamemnon and (2) Libation-Bearers and (3) Eumenides, by Aeschylus; (4) Oedipus at Colonus and (5) ... -
Smooth surfaces and rough edges in retranslating Pausanias, Part 1
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-14) -
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 ...