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Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria

[[This essay was originally published in 2004 in Critical Inquiry 31:26–48. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{26|27}” indicates where p. 26 of the printed version ends and p. 27 begins.]] This inquiry centers on the transmission of sympotic songs attributed to Alcaeus of Mytilene, a city on the island of Lesbos. The starting point of… Read more

PUBLICATIONS

J. Marks, Zeus in the Odyssey

Online edition of Hellenic Studies 31, originally published in 2008 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here. Read more

Library: New Titles

New Titles Cataloged January 2017 Location: Periodicals Bitto, Gregor, author Vergimus in senium: Statius’ Achilleis als Alterswerk, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016] Jonkers, Gijsbert, author The textual tradition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2017 Reif, Matthias, author De arte magorum: Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter Hexenszenen bei Theokrit, Vergil, Horaz, Ovid, Seneca und Lucan unter Berücksichtigung des Ritualaufbaus und der Relation zu den Zauberpapyri… Read more

Curated Books

The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy.

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved. The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy addresses the possible meanings ancient… Read more

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Poetics of Repetition in Homer

[[This article was originally published in 2004 in Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos) 139–148. Hellenic Studies 3. Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{139|140}” indicates where p. 139 of the printed version ends and p. 140 begins.]] Repetition in Homeric poetry is a matter of performance, not… Read more