Search
Now showing items 171-180 of 190
On a rhetoric of dreaming: thoughts about a Freudian insight of Emile Benveniste
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-09-29)
Helen of Sparta and her very own Eidolon
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-05-02)
In Classical Inquiries 2016.02.18, I analyzed a scene in the Homeric Odyssey where Telemachus finds himself transported into a kind of “Mycenaean heaven” while visiting the palace in Sparta where Menelaos lives together ...
Lelantine War, Eretria and Chalkis, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-01)
This post is about a poetic competition or Certamen ‘Contest’ that took place, story has it, between Homer and Hesiod. In all attested versions of the story, Hesiod won and Homer lost. In some versions, as we will see, the ...
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 ...
Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 4
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-02-04)
In the postings for 2015.11.27 and 2016.01.21 and 2016.01.28, I translated and commented on Chapters 1 and 2 and 3 of Aristotle’s Poetics. In the posting here for 2016.02.04, I continue by translating and commenting on ...
The Tithonos Song of Sappho
(Harvard Library, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-11-12)
Herodotus and a courtesan from Naucratis
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-07-01)
The apotheosis of Hēraklēs on Olympus and the mythological origins of the Olympics
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-12)
As I indicated in the previous posting, in Classical Inquiries 2019.07.06 (at II-G5), the aim of the brief follow-up essay that I offer here in the present posting, 2019.07.12, is to connect a myth about the apotheosis of ...
An Experiment in the Making of a Homer Commentary
(2015-05-27)
This posting, 2015.05.27, continues where I left off in a previous posting, 2015.04.10. There I translated and then analyzed the text of the first song of Demodokos, contained in verses 72–83 of Odyssey 8, which I described ...
A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-04-20)