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Sports, Society, and Culture 2015: Exploring Excellence

Sports Society and Culture: Exploring Excellence Fourth International Scholars’ SymposiumJuly 6–July 9, 2015Ancient Olympia, Greece The International Olympic Academy (IOA), in cooperation with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is organizing the Fourth International Scholars’ Symposium on “Sports, Society, and Culture” in Ancient Olympia, July 6–9, 2015. As in the past years, the Symposium will host scholars from around the world and bring together more than a hundred students and… Read more

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Description of Greece: A Pausanias Reader

Description of Greece: A Pausanias Reader, Scrolls 1–10 Translation based on the original rendering by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H.A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes of Jones.The translation is edited, with revisions, by Gregory Nagy [*] [ back ] Scroll I. Attica {1.1.1} Belonging to the Greek mainland [ēpeiros], facing the Cyclades Islands… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliographical Abbreviations ABV = Beazley, J. 1956. Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters. Oxford. BA = Nagy, G. 1999. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Rev. ed. with new intro. Baltimore (available online). DELG = Chantraine, P. 2009. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: histoire des mots. Ed. J. Taillardat, O. Masson, and J.-L. Perpillou. With a supplement Chroniques d’étymologie grecque 1–10. Ed. A. Blanc,… Read more

Curated Articles

A second look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai

2015.03.01 Introduction The original version of this article, Nagy 1994-1995, “A Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai” (Nagy 1994-1995), was published in Minos 29-30 (1994-1995) 171-175. The new online version published here, Nagy 2015, is a second edition, and that is why it has a new title: “A second look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai.” Part I replicates the content of the original text, except for corrections. Part… Read more

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The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language

[Originally published 2007 in Classical World 100:151–157, 10.1353/clw.2007.0017. Second edition, published online 2015.] In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book. §1. Almost… Read more

Primary Sources

Selections from Sappho

Poetry of Sappho Translated by Gregory Nagy Sappho 1 (“Prayer to Aphrodite”)   1  You with pattern-woven flowers, immortal Aphrodite,   2  child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, I implore you,   3  do not devastate with aches and sorrows,   4 Mistress, my heart!   5  But come here [tuide], if ever at any other time   6  hearing my voice from afar,   7  you heeded… Read more

Curated Articles

Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century

[This article was originally published in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry (eds. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and C. Tsagalis) 165–173 (Walter de Gruyter, 2011).] In this paper I wish to suggest some of the possibilities offered by a new approach to interpreting Iliad 10, the so-called Doloneia. I have recently completed a series of essays and a commentary on Iliad 10 with my colleague Mary Ebbott (Dué and… Read more

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Upcoming Visiting Scholars

The following researchers received a visiting scholar grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies and will visit Washington, DC during the spring 2016 term. The award includes housing on the CHS campus in Washington, DC for six nights and travel support. For more information, view the program description. February Laura Jansen (Princeton University) Maria Kazanskaya (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Gonda… Read more

Curated Articles

Review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen

Harvard University [This review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen (Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab; The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. 440 S. 16 Abb. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 4.) appeared in Gnomon 86 (2014) 97-101. The original pagination of the review will be indicated in this electronic version by way of brackets (“{” and “}”). For example,… Read more

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CHS Essential Videos

The following videos are excerpts from other CHS video series that have been selected because of their succinct focus on a key concept. Each video explores its concept or topic in under 7 minutes, and they are made available in the order in which they are processed. Hesiod Human Sacrifice Fast Reading Horse Sacrifice in Ancient India Women and Property God and Humans Classics… Read more