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Herodotus and a courtesan from Naucratis
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Heroesx: The Ancient Greek Hero: Spring 2013 Course Report
(2014)CB22x: The Ancient Greek Hero, was offered as a HarvardX course in Spring 2013 on edX, a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). It was taught by Professor Greg Nagy. The report was prepared by researchers external ... -
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 ... -
Holyoke: A Massachusetts Municipal Light Plant Seizes Internet Access Business Opportunities
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)This case study documents the success of a municipally-owned electric utility in providing Internet access services. Massachusetts has 41 such “munis” –- serving more than 900,000 people and thousands of businesses -– but ... -
Homeric problems and bibliographical challenges, Part 2: More on the performances of rhapsodes at the festival of the Panathenaia
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-11-30)This post, dated 2018.11.30, picks up from where I left off in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.22. Here again I am dealing with problems I have encountered in figuring out the historical circumstances of Homeric performances ... -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Five
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-02-08) -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Four
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-01-31)This posting for 2019.01.31 is Part Four of a long-term project that started with Part One at 2019.01.08 and continued with Part Two at 2019.01.16 and with Part Three at 2019.01.25. The numbering of my paragraphs here in ... -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part One
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-01-08)This essay is the first in a set of consecutive postings that will have the same title, differentiated as Part One, Part Two, and so on. The first two words in the title of each posting derive from an earlier essay, Nagy ... -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Seven
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-03-01)This posting for 2019.03.01 is Part Seven of a long-term project that started with Part One at 2019.01.08. The numbering of my paragraphs here in Part Seven continues from §110 of Part Six, posted 2019.02.22, continuing ... -
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 ... -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Three
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-01-25)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 ... -
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Two
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-01-16)This posting for 2019.01.24 is Part Three of a long-term project that started with Part One at 2019.01.08 and continued with Part Two at 2019.01.16. The numbering of my paragraphs here in Part Three continues from where I ... -
Homo ludens in the world of ancient Greek verbal art
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-10-15) -
How a Classical Homer occasionally downgrades the heroic glory of Ajax in order to save it: Part 1
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-05-24) -
How a Classical Homer occasionally downgrades the heroic glory of Ajax in order to save it: Part 2
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-01)Here in Part 2 of a three-part essay dedicated to Gloria Ferrari Pinney and posted in Classical Inquiries—this second part was posted one day before her eightieth birthday—I elaborate on arguments I introduced in the first ... -
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
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2011)