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Poetics of Repetition in Homer
(Harvard Univeristy, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005)Repetition in Homeric poetry is a matter of performance, not only composition. I argue that this observation applies to the Homeric phenomenon of “repeated utterances.” This argument is part of a larger project, which ... -
God-Hero Antagonism in the Hippolytus of Euripides
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The Barley Cakes of Sosipolis and Eileithuia
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Song 44 of Sappho and the Role of Women in the Making of Epic
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Andromache and her virtuosity as a singer of laments in the Homeric Iliad, Part I
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A Roll of the Dice for Ajax
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On the festival of the goddess Hērā at the Hēraion overlooking the Plain of Argos
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An unnamed woman's lament as a signal of epic sorrow
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A pseudo-Homer gets exposed by Homer
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Herodotus and a courtesan from Naucratis
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Sappho's 'fire under the skin' and the erotic syntax of an epigram by Posidippus
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Classical variations on a story about an Egyptian queen in love
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-15)In this posting for 2015.07.15, I concentrate on Poem 66 of Catullus, which is a remaking or even a “translation” of a poem of Callimachus known as the Lock of Berenice (Coma Berenices, Callimachus fragment 110 ed. Pfeiffer). ... -
East of the Achaeans: Making up for a missed opportunity while reading Hittite texts
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-22)In this posting, I focus on the Greek form Akhaioí, a name translated as ‘Achaeans’. Together with the names Argeîoi and Danaoí, translated respectively as ‘Argives’ and ‘Danaans’, this name Akhaioí refers in Homeric poetry ... -
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 ... -
Cato's daughter Porcia has herself a really good cry
(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-08-12)The lamentations that the sisters and the wife of Cato had performed in mourning for him are symmetrical, in their dramatic force, to the lamentations that could have been performed by Porcia, daughter of Cato, for her ... -
About three fair-haired Egyptian queens
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-08-19)In this posting for 2015.08.14, I return to an earlier posting, for 2015.07.15, where I concentrated on Poem 66 of Catullus. This poem, as we saw, is a remaking or even a “translation” of a poem of Callimachus known as the ... -
The idea of 'finders keepers' as a signature for two sea-empires
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-08-26)This posting for 2015.08.26 is part of a larger project concerning what we can learn about MinoanMycenaean civilization by reading the Homeric Odyssey. In this part of that project, I concentrate on a myth emanating from ... -
Looking through rose-colored glasses while sailing on a sacred journey
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-03)After Theseus dives into the depths of the sea, the sea goddess Amphitrite welcomes him, enveloping the hero in a purple robe (line 112) and crowning his head of hair with a garland made of roses (line 116: ῥόδοις)—a ... -
From Athens to Crete and back
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-10)In my posting for 2015.08.26, I spoke of a “MinoanMycenaean civilization,” not saying “Minoan” and “Mycenaean” separately. That is because, as we saw in the postings for both 2015.08.26 and 2015.09.03, some of the myths ...