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On Ariadne, draft of a new Foreword to a 1970 work of Robert T. Teske on a latent divinity
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-03-29)
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 ...
Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-11-09)
This essay is linked with a lengthy book I published in 2015, Masterpieces of Metonymy. There I argued that metonymy and metaphor, as they are known in verbal art, are analogous respectively to horizontal and vertical ...
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 ...
A variation on the idea of a gleam that blinded Homer
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-02-25)
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Six
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-02-22)
This posting for 2019.02.22 is Part Six of a long-term project that started with Part One at 2019.01.08. The numbering of my paragraphs here in Part Six continues from §95 of Part Five, posted 2019.02.08, continuing from ...
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIII, with a focus on the role of Hēraklēs as kingmaker
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-10-18)
In my essay for 2019.10.11, “Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns,” I focused on references in Greek myth to the stationing of Hēraklēs at the Cyclopean stronghold of Tiryns in the context of the Labors that this ...
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 Cretan Odyssey, Part 2
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-24)
In the posting for 2015.09.17, I showed what can be reconstructed as a Minoan Mycenaean version of Ariadne. Here in the posting for 2015.09.24, I now turn to later versions, as reflected especially in the visual arts of ...
Comments on the visit of Pausanias to Mycenae
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-06-16)