back Homer and the Aegean prehistorian Anthony Snodgrass With academic subjects as with people, many a close and intimate relationship can become cool and distant. It may even be broken off altogether, and replaced by a different relationship. In the case of academic disciplines, such a transfer of affections… Read more
back Finismundo: The Last Voyage (Finismundo: A Última Viagem) Andrea Kouklanakis akouklan@fas.harvard.edu Abstract Finismundo: A Última Viagem (1990), written by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, uses Odysseus’ shipwreck as its foundational theme. In the Odyssey the question surrounding Odysseus’ death is articulated in ambiguous terms in book XI. Read more
Soliman, Sameh Farouk,?? ???????? ???????? ??? ??? ?????????? ???????? ??? ????????? ???? ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ??? ???????????? (??& ??). (In Greek)Online edition of a 2007 dissertation submitted to the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Copyright, Sameh Farouk Soliman. Published here by… Read more
back Richard P. Martin, Stanford University I like to think it fitting that I first met Gregory Nagy, some 40 years ago, at a puppet show. Fred Christie, then a Jesuit scholastic and graduate student at Harvard, had taken two of us, rather sceptical students of Greek from Boston College… Read more
back Claudia Filos Ἑλένης μὲν ταύτην ἄπιξιν παρὰ Πρωτέα ἔλεγον οἱ ἱρέες γενέσθαι. Δοκέει δέ μοι καὶ Ὅμηρος τὸν λόγον τοῦτον πυθέσθαι· ἀλλ’, οὐ γὰρ ὁμοίως ἐς τὴν ἐποποιίην εὐπρεπὴς ἦν τῷ ἑτέρῳ τῷ περ ἐχρήσατο, [ἐς ὃ] μετῆκε αὐτόν. The priests say that this is the way Helen… Read more
back Lisa Raphals For Greg Nagy Greg, the debts I owe you I can only repay to my students and others. But please accept this tiny token as, not a pelanos, but a small token of thanks, birthday wishes, incredulity, and warm regards. Yours, Lisa Origin and Sources This… Read more
Quiet Project Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, To Encounter a Hero: Localization and Travel in Hellenistic Hero Cults Antoniou, Dimitris,The Mosque That Wasn’t There: Ethnographic Elaborations on Orthodox Conceptions of Sacrifice Athanassaki, Lucia, A Magnificent Birthday Party in an Artful Pavilion: Lifestyle and Leadership in… Read more
back Jed Wyrick, California State University, Chico, jwyrick(at)csuchico.edu Examinations of the process of text creation in antiquity often attempt to emphasize the original creative spark of the author in contrast to the voice of tradition. [1] The authorial ideal of creatio ex nihilo, widely utilized (at… Read more
back Emily Allen-Hornblower Apostrophes in Homeric poetry—those instances where the poet addresses a character directly in the vocative—are “embarrassing” for the reader and critic. [1] The apostrophe disrupts the flow of the third-person narrative by bringing the poet, performer, and audience in direct contact… Read more
