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Gli horoi rupestri dell’attica

CHS/DAI Joint Fellow La vexata quaestio dei confini demici Un interessante ed alquanto nutrito dibattito si è svolto ed è tuttora in corso nel tentativo di definire con maggior precisione quale fosse l’effettiva natura dei demi clistenici. L’opinione predominante è che, nel compiere la sua riorganizzazione politica dell’Attica, Clistene immaginò essenzialmente una divisione di tipo territoriale e di conseguenza creò i demi frazionando la regione in tante unità separate e… Read more

Donum natalicium

Tribute to Our Bátyánk

back Blaise, Michael, and Joseph Nagy Older brothers are usually cast as inconsequential foils or second-tier villains in the world of folktales. They fail where the youngest brother succeeds, and in their resentment of the latter’s success they may even go so far as to try to prevent that brother from reaching his “happily ever after.” The relationship between brothers in the realm of epic, on the other hand,… Read more

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Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri

[This essay was originally published in 2000 in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 64:7–28. The page numbers of the original publication have been placed within braces ‘{ }’, so that {7|8} indicates the page break between p. 7 and p. 8.] Ancient scholarship on the songs of Bacchylides, as revealed by the visual formatting of these songs in papyri, reveals much that has been neglected by modern Classical scholars. Most… Read more

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The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor

Brandeis University [This essay was originally published in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 93 (1990), pp. 59–101. The original pagination is marked in brackets ‘{ }’, so, for example, the break between pages 59 and 60 will be as follows: {59|60}.] αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ κόσμηθεν ἅμ’ ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἕκαστοι Τρῶες μὲν κλαγγῇ τ’ ἐνοπῇ τ’ ἴσαν, ὄρνιθες ὥς, ἠΰτε περ κλαγγὴ γεράνων πέλει οὐρανόθι πρό αἳ τ’ ἐπεὶ… Read more

Donum natalicium

My Daddy

back Antonia Nagy I have always admired Gregory Nagy the man. He is undeniably a remarkable person. Brilliant, friendly, funny, caring, and of course, passionate. He is an easy man to respect. But I am his daughter, so I have also always been critical of him as a father. But that is not my fault! I was raised by intellectuals who value the process of deductive reasoning. How could… Read more