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Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth Revised by the Seven Against Thebes Heroization team (Hélène Emeriaud, Kelly Lambert, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Keith DeStone) The Acropolis of Thebes, in which stand altars and images of various divinities. A large gathering of citizens of Thebes. Enter Eteokles with attendants. Eteokles Men of Kadmos’s […]
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Open Greek and Latin Project
Open Greek and Latin Project (OGL) The Open Greek and Latin (OGL) project is the umbrella project for the development of corpus linguistic resources for the study of Classical Greek and Latin. The idea is to bring together in machine-actionable form all the Classical Greek and Latin texts from antiquity up to the present, to […]
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Gregory Crane, “Individual Developments and Systemic Change in Philology”
Individual Developments and Systemic Change in Philology Gregory Crane May 1, 2018 At the end of March 2018, my collaborators and I finished enjoying five years of support—5,000,000 EUR(!)—from an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, support which allowed young researchers from many different countries to work both as a team and on their own. Documenting all […]
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Anthroponymica Mycenaea: e-ti-me-de-i (dat.) /hEnti-mēdēs/ ‘(the one) who accomplished his plans’, Homeric ἐξήνυσε βουλάς
back José L. García Ramón (Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC) 1. The Pylian man’s name e-ti-me-de-i (dat.) occurs in PY Fn 324.1 (S324, Ciii), a tablet of contributions of barley (HORD, with indication of the quantities) beside a series of names.* Some of them, all in dative, are surely Greek, [1] among others a-ka-ma-jo .4 […]
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The Oral Background of the Eddas and Sagas
Gísli Sigurðsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland More than fifty years after the publication of The Singer of Tales the book and the ideas therein still serve as a fresh wind in the textually-oriented field of Old Norse Studies where very few have taken up the issue of how an […]
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Part I. Dramatic Representations of Verse Competition
Part I. Dramatic Representations of Verse Competition ἀγὼν γὰρ ἄνδρας οὐ μένει λελειμμένους The contest does not wait for men left behind. Aeschylus, fr. 37 TGF 1. Stichomythia Our point of departure will be to survey a variety of competitive verse sequences that are represented in tragedy and Old Comedy, starting with the phenomenon of […]
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Call for Papers: 5000 Years of Comments
The Development of Commentary from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Age of Information August 7-10, 2018 Sponsored and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies Organized by Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University) and Jacqueline Vayntrub (Brandeis University) Commentary on the written word is nearly as old as writing itself and has developed alongside scholarship, literature and […]
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!I.Introduction
I.Introduction The many facets of the Ariadne-figure have long been the subject of classical scholarship. The peculiar cultic customs surrounding the goddess have been assiduously interpreted, in part successfully and in part unsuccessfully. Her relation to the figure of Dionysus has been explored in hopes of proving the Mycenaean origins of the god; as for […]
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Gregory Nagy, Παρατηρήσεις σχετικά με τις ελληνικές διαλέκτους στα τέλη της δεύτερης χιλιετίας π.Χ.
Παρατηρήσεις σχετικά με τις ελληνικές διαλέκτους στα τέλη της δεύτερης χιλιετίας π.Χ. Gregory Nagy [1] Μετάφραση από την Christina Lafi Κατά την πρώτη χιλιετία π.Χ., η οποία αποτελεί την εποχή στην οποία αναπτύχθηκε η αλφαβητική γραφή από τους Ελληνόφωνους λαούς από τον όγδοο αιώνα π.Χ., υπάρχουν μαρτυρίες για ένα ευρύ φάσμα διαλέκτων οι οποίες μπορούν […]
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