Image Credits Figure 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953; acc. no. 53.11.4. Photo, all rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Figure 2. Musée du Louvre, acc. no. G 104. Photo, Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Figure 3. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, acc. no. […]
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By Way of Conclusion: Returns to the Present Truth loves to prevail,and all-conquering timealways fosters the deed that is well done Bacchylides 13.204-207 (translation by Campbell 1992:201) Inserted into a poem by Bacchylides which celebrates the victory of an athlete of Aegina in the Nemean games, this aphorism on truth (alḗtheia) which always triumphs with time (khrónos) might well serve as the very foundation for the representation of time […]
V. Ritual and Initiatory Itineraries toward the Afterlife: Time, Space, and Pragmatics in the Gold Lamellae Western postmodernism, moving now toward hyper- or meta-modernism, has been characterized both by the desire for immediate profit and by the development of means of communication and multi-media. These two phenomena are brought together by the […]
IV. Regimes of Historicity and Oracular Logic: How To Re-Found A Colonial City? 1. Cyclical and philosophical temporalities It is a common opinion that Greek concepts of time are deeply marked by the image of the circle, that they refer to a fundamentally cyclical temporality. Historians of “Greek thought,” while applying […]
III. Creation of Gender and Heroic Identity between Legend and Cult: The Political Creation Of Theseus By Bacchylides Gender is a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes,” or “a primary way of signifying relationships of power.” [1] Quoting definitions taken out of their contexts could hardly […]
II. The Succession of Ages and Poetic Pragmatics of Justice: Hesiod’s Narrative of the Five Human Species What has not been said or written about the “myth of the races?” Inserting Hesiod’s didactic Works poem into a specific time and space, this narrative in Homeric diction is the best example of a […]
I. Spatio-temporal Poetics of the Past in Ancient Greece “Memory is the present of the past.” Saint Augustine, Confessions 11.20,26 The transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century has helped history to experience a real renewal, both as a determining influence on our social life and as […]
Translator’s Preface This translation, undertaken with the support of the Fondation Chuard Schmid at the Université de Lausanne and the Center for Hellenic Studies, is intended in part to address our ambivalence about translation. Translation nearly always represents compromise in our various fields of study. Academics, especially those specialized in some specific […]
Foreword It is difficult to find words to describe the intellectual challenge offered by the invitation from the Classics Department of Harvard University in Fall 2000 to present the four Carl Newell Jackson lectures to an audience which managed to combine critical attention with a welcoming acceptance for the non-traditional positions I […]