New to the Hellenic Studies Series We are very pleased to share the most recent additions to our Hellenic Studies Series, available in print through Harvard University Press. Andrea Rotstein, Literary History in the Parian Marble Inscribed some time after 264 BCE, the Parian Marble offers a chronological list of events with an exceptional emphasis on literary matters. Literary History in the Parian Marble explores the… Read more
New to the Hellenic Studies Series We are very pleased to share the most recent additions to our Hellenic Studies Series, available in print through Harvard University Press. Andrea Rotstein, Literary History in the Parian Marble Inscribed some time after 264 BCE, the Parian Marble offers a chronological list of events with an exceptional emphasis on literary matters. Literary History in the Parian Marble explores the literary and… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is excited for the upcoming Sunoikisis Course Planning and Faculty Development Seminar. Seventeen professors from across the country and around the world will be attending the Greek and Latin Sunoikisis planning seminars, both in person and electronically, from June 10th to June 20th. This year’s Greek seminar is focusing on Hellenistic Literature with Ivana and Andrej Petrovic from Durham University serving… Read more
Join Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner as they read the Odyssey, Book 1, Line 80–92. You can find the text via Perseus here. Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, by Margaret Alexiou, was originally published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press. For over a quarter of a century, this pathfinding book has been consistently consulted and cited as the most authoritative work on the tradition of singing laments in the prehistory and history of… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, by Margaret Alexiou, was originally published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press. For over a quarter of a century, this pathfinding book has been consistently consulted and cited as the most authoritative work on the tradition of singing laments in the prehistory and history of… Read more
In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy focuses on the Homeric expression Dios boulē, which has has translated at times as ‘the Will of Zeus’ and at other times ‘the Plan of Zeus’. Nagy explains the variation in his translation: I see no contradiction here, since I have always understood the Will of Zeus to be the functional equivalent of the… Read more
