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The Oath of the Ephebes as a symbol of democracy—and of environmentalism
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Objection-reply: Do journal processing fees exclude the poor?
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Objection-reply: Whether OA-promoting policies must "wait until the infrastructure is ready"
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Objection-reply: Whether the upfront payment model corrupts peer review at open-access journals
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Odysseus’ Boat? New Mycenaean Evidence from the Egyptian New Kingdom
(Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2014)In 1920, a small wooden ship model was discovered in a shallow tomb in Gurob, near the Faiyum oasis in Middle Egypt. Incorrectly assembled (twice) but perceptively labeled as a “Pirate Boat” by the overseer of its excavation, ... -
Olympus as mountain and Olympia as venue for the Olympics: a question about the naming of these places
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-07-06)The question is, can we connect the name for Mount Olympus with the name for Olympia, the place where the festival of the Olympics was traditionally celebrated every four years? Aiming for a unified answer to this question, ... -
On a fable about the hawk as a strongman
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-06-21)n what is generally agreed to be the earliest attestation of a fable in Greek literature, we read about a hawk that has just captured another bird. The fable is embedded in the Hesiodic Works and Days, lines 202–212, where ... -
On a new book by Richard P. Martin, draft of a Foreword written by an admiring editor
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-12-09) -
On a rhetoric of dreaming: thoughts about a Freudian insight of Emile Benveniste
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-09-29) -
On a ‘guessing song’ sung by Cherubino in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-10-04) -
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) -
On cases of wolfish rage experienced by Greek heroes
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-05-24) -
On Herakles as a model for the athlete Milo of Croton
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-05-10) -
On Ingmar Bergman's Queen of the Night in his film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-10-26) -
On some mystifying language used by Pausanias in referring to the Eleusinian Mysteries
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-07-10)I have run into a problem in trying to come up with an adequate translation of Pausanias when he talks about the Eleusinian Mysteries. Part of the problem, I think, is that Pausanias himself is mystifying in his language ... -
On the Biomedical Elite: Inequality and Stasis in Scientific Knowledge Production
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Researchers and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using metrics (from bibliometrics to patent counts), which are core instruments of a longstanding effort to quantify scientific productivity and worth. ... -
On the eclipse of Ajax as a most eligible suitor of Helen
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-14)In fragments from Hesiodic poetry, we read that the hero Ajax was one of many heroes who converged on Sparta to compete with each other as rival suitors of a most eligible bride, Helen, daughter of Zeus. Some of these ... -
On the festival of the goddess Hērā at the Hēraion overlooking the Plain of Argos
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-03-20)