back Stamatia Dova To a true mentor Both psychology and common experience consider mentorship a process pivotal for the development and character formation of a young person. [1] Mentor and mentee are supposed to gravitate towards each other based on compatibility and social convention, forging a bond that resembles the one between parent and child. […]
back Matthew Clark for Gregory Nagy Hyrnetho is the heroine of rival local traditions of Argos and Epidauros. Pausanias has recorded a fairly full account of the story of Hynetho, and she is mentioned briefly by several other ancient authors, but she is certainly not one of the major figures of Greek tradition. Her story, […]
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back Anna Bonifazi, University of Heidelberg ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ Sure, the best is water Pindar Olympian I 1 Nagy (2009) identifies one of the esthetic values associated with the reflections of Homeric poetry in later authoritative voices of Greek and Latin literature as the “esthetics of fluidity.” The flow of narration/poetry is often depicted as […]
back Ellen Bradshaw Aitken Introduction [1] In the Greek and Roman worlds, the veneration of those called “heroes” and specifically of dead heroes was a highly localized religious phenomenon. Centered on tombs or other burial sites, the cult practices of devotion to a hero draw our attention to the highly localized character of much traditional […]
Madness—The Complexity of Morals in the Light of Myth and Cult So far, we have seen how mythical parallels function as a kind of commentary, marking sacrilege as such. Now we will have a look at a group of sacrilegious acts that are connected with madness. They, too, have parallels with mythical paradigms, but are […]
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 31, originally published in 2008 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here.
Casey Dué, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
Alexander Hollmann, Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories