‘The Bitter Chain of Slavery’: Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome Keith Bradley Towards the middle of the fifth century AD the Christian presbyter and moralist Salvian of Marseilles composed a highly polemical tract, On the Governance of God, in which he explained to the decadent Romans around him how it was that the destructive presence in their midst of barbarian invaders was the result not of God’s neglect of… Read more
To refer to this please cite it in this way : Rudolph Hock, Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Lectures, Howard University, Introduction, https://chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/frank_m._snowden_jr./. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. November, 2005 The Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Annual Lecture Series at Howard University, Washington, D.C. On November 21, 2003 Professor Snowden was honored at the White House as a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. The words with which he was… Read more
The Web of Penelope ἡ δὲ δόλον τόνδ’ ἄλλον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μερμήριξε· στησαμένη μέγαν ἱστὸν ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ὕφαινε, λεπτὸν καὶ περίμετρον· … ἔνθα καὶ ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκεν μέγαν ἱστόν, νύκτας δ’ ἀλλύεσκεν, ἐπὴν δαΐδας παραθεῖτο. This was her latest masterpiece of guile: she set up a great loom in the royal halls and she began to weave, and the weaving finespun, the yarns… Read more
Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions between the eighth and the fifth centuries B.C. Included in the volume are thirteen of Nagy’s major essays—all extensively revised for book publication—on various aspects of the Hellenization of… Read more
[[This article was originally published in 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press as Chapter 2 of Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. by T. Figueria and G. Nagy) 22-81. Baltimore. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{22|23}” indicates where p. 22 of the printed version ends and p. 23 begins]] [1]… Read more
Casey Dué examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in the Iliad, as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and self-contained oral poetic system. Briseis’ lament for Patroclus in Iliad 19 hints at her role in the larger epic tradition. Dué argues that Briseis’ role in the Iliad is enormously compressed, both in relation to the Iliad and the entire tradition of the epic cycle. Through a… Read more
To refer to this please cite it in this way : Casey Dué, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, Table of Contents, https://chs.harvard.edu/publications. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. 7/25/06 Contents Foreword by Gregory Nagy [vii] Acknowledgments [ix] List of Abbreviations [xi] Introduction: Variations on Briseis [1] 1. Briseis and the Multiformity of the Iliad [21] 2. Prize [37] 3. Girl [49] 4. Wife… Read more
top anchor To refer to this please cite it in this way : Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, Endnotes, https://chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. September, 2005 Notes Note 1 As argued in chapter 2, section 1, the context of the form ne?ai in xi 114 – a prophecy among the dead – indicates that this form originally meant “you will return… Read more
top anchor To refer to this please cite it in this way : Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, 7: Epilogue, https://chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. September, 2005 7. Epilogue Now that a connection has been established between Greek nóos and the Indo-European root nes-, it will be interesting to consider a few further instances in Greek tradition where the notion… Read more
