Acknowledgments I wish to express my gratitude to Gregory Nagy, the editor of this series, for his encouragement and for sharing with me his many insights on the role of lyric poetry during Plato’s time. I would also like to acknowledge my debt to Charles Segal and Ian Rutherford, each of whom offered me valuable comments and suggestions on a wide variety of topics. Albert Henrichs also greatly influenced my… Read more
Chapter 3. Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias Perhaps the most discussed quotation from lyric poetry found in Plato is the reference by Callicles in the Gorgias to a Pindaric poem concerned with the labors of Herakles (fr. 169a Snell-Maehler). Although Callicles quotes only five lines from the poem, it is clear that these lines, like the reference to Simonides in the Protagoras, are familiar to Plato’s audience. As… Read more
Foreword Gregory Nagy, General Editor Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium B.C.E. to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern of a single… Read more
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 55, originally published in 2012 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here. To download an e-book version of this book in epub format, click here. Read more
[[Originally printed 2011 in Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (ed. L. Athanassaki and E. L. Bowie) 173-206. Berlin. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {173|174} marks where p. 173 stops and p. 174 begins.]] [1] Introduction Ode 13 of Bacchylides celebrated the victory of Pytheas of Aegina in the athletic… Read more
This is an electronic version of Chapter 1 of Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry. Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC (ed. David Fearn; Oxford 2011) 41–78. The original pagination of the chapter will be indicated in this electronic version by way of braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{41|42}” indicates where p. 41 of the printed chapter ends and p. 42 begins. Introduction The Aeginetan odes… Read more
[[This article was originally published in 2012 in Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (edited by M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, and G. C. Wakker) 131-162, Peeters Publishers: Leuven. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within braces in this electronic version: for example, {131|132} marks where p. 131 ends and p. 132 begins.]] The divinity of heroes, and the cult honors they received in the Greek world,… Read more
This is an electronic version of the printed version published 2011 in The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays (edited by Andrew Faulkner) 280-333, Oxford University Press. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within braces in this electronic version: for example, {280|281} marks where p. 280 stops and p. 281 begins. Introduction It has been argued that Hesiodic poetry, like Homeric poetry, contains references to four aspects of oral poetry:… Read more
back Jeffrey P. Emanuel [1] Abstract Though Odysseus’ ainos in Odyssey xiv 199–359 is presented as a fictional tale within Homer’s larger myth, some elements have striking analogs in historical reality. This paper examines the “Cretan Lie” within its fictive Late Bronze–Early Iron Age context for the purpose of identifying and evaluating those elements that parallel historical reality, with a particular focus on three… Read more
