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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
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-03-25) -
The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission plan for open access
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If you're Looking at the Cell Means, You're Not Looking at Only the Interaction (Unless All Main Effects Are Zero)
(American Psychological Association, 1991)This reply to Meyer explains again that cell means, although usually the results of greatest interest, should not be confused with interaction effects. Unless all main effects are 0, one cannot accurately interpret an ... -
An Iliadic Odyssey as a song of the Sirens
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-09-18)This short essay about the Odyssey of “Homer” is a playful experiment. But it is based on an even shorter essay that is quite serious in intent. That essay (Nagy 2020) appears in World Epics, an on-line site edited by Jo ... -
Imagining a Courtesan in the Songs of Sappho
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Imagining a sensually self-assertive singing bride—while reading the songs of Sappho
(Center for Hellenic Studies., 2021-01-29)This brief essay considers a situation where girls and women are having an all-night party in celebration of a bride who is getting married tomorrow, let us imagine. In previous essays, I have analyzed references, in a ...