[[This paper, published here for the first time, is based on a report for a seminar directed by Gregory Nagy and held at the Johns Hopkins University in the fall semester of 1973.]] Claude Lévi-Strauss, in works like The Raw and the Cooked (1970), has shown that attempts to analyze the structure of a given myth using the themes of only one or even of a few versions is unlikely… Read more
[[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the first edition ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made… Read more
Philosophical Fiction I. Books: Fourdraine, Leo. Socratica I: In Search of the Real Socrates (1.3MB PDF download).This fictional work takes the form of a Platonic dialogue in order to explore the the philosophy of Socrates. It is published by the Center for Hellenic Studies under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) … Read more
OTHER FELLOWS CHS E.U. Fellow in Multi-Disciplinary Research/IT and Publications Ioanna Papadopoulou CHS Fellow in Ancient Greek Religion and its Reception Barbara Graziosi, University of Durham CHS Associates in Comparative Cultural Studies Dimiter Angelov, University of Birmingham Panagiota Batsaki, University of Cambridge Sahar Bazzaz, College of the Holy Cross Dimitris Kastritsis, University of St. AndrewsIlham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern UniversityAnna Stavrakopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki… Read more
Chapter One: Recognition and the Return of Odysseus During their meeting in Book 13, Athena and Odysseus sit down together at the base of an olive tree and concoct the plot through which, imitating the story of a disguised god, he will defeat his enemies. This then becomes the plot, in a literary sense, of the second half of the poem, a plot shaped by the deployment of a divine strategy… Read more
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey: preface to the 2nd edition This book is a study of how the plot of the Odyssey works. It represents an effort to uncover the particular significance in this poem of recognition, a plot device so common that it figures as one of Propp’s thirty-nine functions of the folktale and plays a key role, under the name of anagnorisis, in Aristotle’s analysis in the… Read more
