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Weaving while singing Sappho's songs in Epigram 55 of Posidippus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-01-07)Epigram 55 of Posidippus, a poet who flourished in the third century BCE, refers to the songs of Sappho. That is what I argued already in my postings for 2015.11.19 and 2015.12.03. This epigram, as we can see from those ... -
What GN owes OMD
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What is on Homer's mind?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-02-11)In the verbal art of Homeric poetry, we find two passages where Homer actually says that he has something on his mind. The first something is the good ship Argo in Odyssey 12.70 and the second something is the hero Odysseus ... -
What on earth did Helen ever see in Ajax, her former suitor?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-21)In our Homeric Iliad, there is a scene, traditionally known as the Teikhoskopiā or ‘View from the Walls’, where Helen of Sparta, described here as daughter of Zeus, is looking down from where she is standing, high up on ... -
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 ... -
What thoughts you have of me, and what thoughts I have of you, in poems by Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-02-07)Just the other day, 2020.01.31, I had the good fortune of getting involved in a special event, held at Harvard University, which was described, most engagingly, as “A night of philosophy and ideas.” During that event, ... -
When Self-Praise Connects the Speaker to the Universe: A Diachronic View of the Word Eukhomai (εὔχομαι) in Its Homeric Contexts
(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-01-20)In translating Homeric Greek, speakers of English need to translate eukhomai (εὔχομαι) as ‘pray’ or ‘vow’ in some contexts and as ‘boast’ in other contexts. Meanwhile, there is an attestation of the third-person eukhetai ... -
Where it all comes together for me: a sacred space of the goddess Hērā
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-03-16) -
Who is the best of heroes, Achilles or Odysseus? And which is the best of epics, the Iliad or the Odyssey?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-04-10)In H24H, I speak about the complementarity of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in foregrounding respectively Achilles and Odysseus as the best hero among all the Achaeans who came to fight in the Trojan War. (In this context, ...