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How a Classical Homer occasionally downgrades the heroic glory of Ajax in order to save it: Part 3
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-07)Here in Part 3 of my three-part essay, I take up the argument I introduced at the end of Part 2 (Nagy 2021.06.01, linked here): in “our” Iliad and in “our” Odyssey, the heroic glory of Ajax needs to be safeguarded—but it ... -
How a girl dances in an Aeolic way, whether she is wearing sandals or not
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-02-13)In this brief essay, I consider again the beautiful sandals worn by the girl from Lesbos who is described in a song of Anacreon that I analyzed in my previous essay for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2021.02.06). Even though ... -
How are the epic verses of the Hesiodic Suitors of Helen relevant to Achilles in our Homeric Iliad?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-07-05)This essay picks up from where I left off in a succession of two previous essays (Nagy 2021.06.14, linked here, and Nagy 2021.06.21, linked here). In both those essays, I concentrated on evidence that I gathered from the ... -
How CER could pay for itself — insights from vertebral fracture treatments
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How Even a Classical Homer Might Save From Harm the Heroic Glory of Ajax
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How Homeric poetry may help us achieve a keener appreciation of Sappho’s wedding songs
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-09-25)Back in the year 2013, which was the original publication date for my book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (hereafter H24H), I took the risk of drastically expanding one of the 24 “Hours,” making it twice as long as the ... -
How Much Does it Cost? The LIFE Project - Costing Models for Digital Curation and Preservation
(Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services, 2007)Digital preservation is concerned with the long-term safekeeping of electronic resources. How can we be confident of their permanence, if we do not know the cost of preservation? The LIFE (Lifecycle Information for ... -
How myths that connect the hero Philoctetes with the goddess Chryse are related to myths about a koúrē ‘girl’ named Chryseis
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-08-16)In two previous essays posted for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2021.08.02 and 2021.08.09, linked here and here), I analyzed myths that connect the hero Philoctetes with the goddess Chryse, arguing that these myths can be ... -
How Pindar’s Homer Might Save From Harm the Heroic Glory of Ajax
(Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-05-10)In this essay I attempt to explain, though only in its barest outlines, Pindar’s poetic project of picturing ‘Homer’ as a potential savior of the glory deserved by Ajax, hero of Salamis—despite this Homer’s generally ... -
How should we define "open access"?
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How the first word in Song 1 of Sappho is relevant to her reception in the ancient world—and to various different ways of thinking about the Greek word hetairā
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-01-15)In this essay, extracting what I have learned about the meaning of the first word in Song 1 of Sappho in the overall context of studying, in previous essays, the ancient reception of Sappho, I will concentrate on the erotic ... -
How to be a good Centaur
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-04-26)In today’s popular thinking, it is all too easy to assume that the Centaurs of Greek mythology are bad, one and all. And such an assumption seems justifiable when we consider the myths that I analyzed in two previous essays ... -
How To Make Your Own Work Open Access
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I Am a Scribe Who Writes Letters, and My Writing Gives Me Power: Variations on a Theme in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
(Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-01-24)There is a story about a scribe who succeeded in seizing political power, at least for a while, precisely because he was a scribe. And this scribe could not have had even such a limited degree of success if he had not been ... -
I Am Wild And Always Will Be
(Black Key Press, 2011)In April, Printer's Devil Review was invited to participate in a round-table conversation with July about her new movie, screening at Independent Film Festival Boston. The other publications represented at the roundtable ... -
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 ... -
The Idea of Immediate Learning in an Age of Necessitated Distance Education
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The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission plan for open access
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2007)