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Pausanias at Sounion: why no mention of Poseidon?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-06-12)t the very beginning of the Description of Greece as narrated by Pausanias (1.1.1), when the ship carrying our traveler approaches the east side of the akrā or ‘headland’ of Sounion, he must have been struck by the view ... -
Pausanias Tries to Visualize the Three ‘Graces’ of Orkhomenos in Boeotia
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Paying for green open access
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Percy Jackson’s visit to Lotus Hotel, viewed through a Homeric lens
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-09)As I was reading through the first volume of Rick Riordan’s five-volume series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Lightning Thief (2005), the story that is told there about a visit to “Lotus Hotel” by Percy and his companions ... -
A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales
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A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Parts I and II of Richard P. Martin’s Mythologizing Performance
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-04-12)In an earlier posting, Classical Inquiries 2017.12.09, I have already expressed the intellectual debt I owe to Richard P. Martin’s book, Mythologizing Performance (Cornell University Press 2018). In the present posting, I ... -
Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2016)This collection of essays includes perspectives on and approaches to harmful speech online from a wide range of voices within the Berkman Klein Center community. Recognizing that harmful speech online is an increasingly ... -
PH207x: Health in Numbers and PH278x: Human Health and Global Environmental Change: 2012-2013 Course Report
(2014)In the 2012-2013 academic year, the first two Harvard School of Public Health courses were offered through HarvardX on the edX platform: PH207x: Health in Numbers and PH278x: Human Health and Global Environmental Change. ... -
Picturing Archilochus as a Cult Hero
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Pindar's Homer is not "our" Homer
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-12-24)I argue that the figure of Homer in the lyric songmaking of Pindar is envisioned as the poet of all epic, not only of the Iliad and the Odyssey as we know them. At the core of my argumentation here is the earliest ... -
A placeholder for the hero Amphiaraos
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-05-04)Amphiaraos, a hero who is most prominently featured in ancient Greek epic narratives about the so-called Seven Against Thebes, has a special place in the writings of Pausanias, as we can readily see from a search for this ... -
A placeholder for the love story of Phaedra and Hippolytus: What’s love got to do with it?
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-21)When Phaedra sees Hippolytus for the very first time, she is already falling in love with him. That is what Pausanias seems to be saying as he retells the myth. The ancient Greek word that he uses in this context is ... -
A placeholder for the White Goddess
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-05-25)The Greek name for the mythological figure whom we recognize as the White Goddess was Leukotheā—a name that actually means ‘white goddess’. In the ancient myths that tell about this figure, however, she was not always a ... -
A plane tree in Nafplio: decorating a reader for travel-study in Greece, March 2018
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-03-22) -
Planning for the Next Pandemic: A Global, Interoperable System of Contact Tracing
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Platform Accountability Through Digital "Poison Cabinets"
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, 2021-04-13)Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent. -
Poetics of Repetition in Homer
(Harvard Univeristy, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005)Repetition in Homeric poetry is a matter of performance, not only composition. I argue that this observation applies to the Homeric phenomenon of “repeated utterances.” This argument is part of a larger project, which ... -
Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-11-09)This essay is linked with a lengthy book I published in 2015, Masterpieces of Metonymy. There I argued that metonymy and metaphor, as they are known in verbal art, are analogous respectively to horizontal and vertical ... -
Point of View: Faculty Appointments and the Record of Scholarship
(Life Sciences Publications, Ltd., 2013)Academic review committees would benefit from more details about the contributions made by individual researchers to papers with multiple authors, and also from more information about other types of scholarly communication. -
Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March – May 2020
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-29)By the middle of March, the Democratic primary had effectively ended and the enormity of the Covid-19 pandemic and its human and economic cost began to sink in. The response to the pandemic had already been thoroughly ...