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L’échange des armures entre Diomède et Glaucos Iliade VI, 232-236)

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Brasil Abstract: Commentary on an enigmatic scene of book VI of the Iliad: the exchange of Glaucos’ golden armour for Diomedes’ bronze armour. Discussion of this kind of gift and counter-gift (between xeînoi) in this Homeric poem, as well as of the motif that would cause Zeus to “take reason from Glaucos”, leading him to accept such an unfavourable and disproportionate exchange. Keywords: exchange;… Read more

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Le ranking du loisir : une parodie de l’arrogance productiviste (résumé d’un essai fictionnel)

Faculté de Lettres – UFMG [This text is a reduced, revised version of “O ranking do lazer,” which was originally published in Ensaios de escola (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2003, p. 148-161).]* §1. Pendant les vacances d’été au mois de janvier, un groupe de quatre couples (hétérosexuels) – qui ne se connaissent pas bien entre eux, mais qui ont tous, aussi bien les hommes que… Read more

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Note critique sur la « belle mort » vernantienne

Teodoro Rennó Assunção Faculté de Lettres Université Fédérale de Minas Gerais (Brésil) [This article was originally published in Classica: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, São Paulo, 7/8: 53-62, 1994/1995. It is made available here by permission of the editor-in-chief of Classica.] Résumé: Cet article vise à critiquer la conception de la mort héroïque proposée par Jean-Pierre Vernant dans l’article « La belle mort est le cadavre outragé ». Il part de la… Read more

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Poetics of authorial, rhythmic, and gendered identities: The subject of discourse in Pindar’s Theban partheneion

École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre AnHiMA, Paris (translated by Sean Harrigan, Yale University) 1968: key-date in the development of the humanities among francophone scholars. In 1968 Roland Barthes publishes a brief essay on literary texts in modernity under the heading “la mort d’auteur.” In literature, in the act of writing, it is now “le langage qui parle, ce n’est pas l’auteur”; “écrire, c’est, à travers une impersonnalité… Read more

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Le mythe iliadique de Bellérophon

Université Fédérale de Minas Gérais, Belo Horizonte (Brésil) EHESS, Paris [This essay was originally published in Gaia : revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque, Numéro 1-2, 1997, pp. 41-66. It is published here by permission of the author.] Pour Nicole Loraux Deux traits distinguent ce mythe de ceux qui racontent la généalogie d’un héros. Le premier est sa longueur : 62 vers, plus du double de la généalogie d’Énée (Il. Read more

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Euripides, Trojan Women

Translated by E. P. Coleridge. Revised by the Trojan Women Heroization team (Keith DeStone, Hélène Emeriaud, Kelly Lambert, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott) Before Agamemnon’s tent in the camp near Troy. Poseidon From the depths of salt Aegean sea [pontos] I, Poseidon, have come, where choruses [khoroi] of Nereids dance in a graceful maze; for since the day that Phoebus and I with exact measurement [5] set towers… Read more

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Euripides, Helen

Translation by E. P. Coleridge Revised by the Helen Heroization team (Hélène Emeriaud, Claudia Filos, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Jack Vaughan) Before the palace of Theoklymenos in Egypt. It is near the mouth of the Nile. The tomb of Proteus, the father of Theoklymenos, is visible. Helen is discovered alone before the tomb. Helen These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile, which waters the plain… Read more

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A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus

[[This essay was originally published in 2019 as chapter 12 of Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honour of James M. Redfield, eds. Bruce M. King and Lillian Doherty, 173–187. It has been made available by permission of Routledge Publishers. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{173|174}” indicates where p. 173 of the printed version ends… Read more

Introduction How many ways are there to tell the story of Troy? A passage from Iliad 20 makes me wonder just how flexible the Homeric tradition might be. At the beginning of book 20, Zeus calls the gods to an assembly. He tells them that they may now join the battle taking place before the walls of Troy on whichever side they wish, something that he had expressly forbidden them… Read more