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Now Available Online | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If… Read more
Now Available Online | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor… Read more
Ritual Music and Deified Instruments in the Bronze Age Near East
The cognitive interface between musician and god, instrument and player Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings (and much more). Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in 1968 that Kinnaru—the divinized temple-lyre—was venerated at Ugarit, an important Late Bronze Age city just… Read more
CHS Open House: ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’ with Joel Christensen
We are pleased to welcome back Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) for our next CHS Open House discussion, on Thursday, October 22 at 11 a.m. EDT, when we will be talking about ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’ which was originally given as a keynote talk at the 2015 Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies. To prepare for the discussion, participants might like to read… Read more
Available Online l Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology by Eric Kansa
The Center For Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of spring fellow Eric Kansa’s paper, “Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology,” which was presented at the 2015 Fellows Research Symposium. See the abstract below. To read the full article, visit the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Bulletin. Abstract Though digital data is assuming increasing importance in archaeological research, it still plays… Read more
CHS Essentials | How Old is our Iliad?
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins… Read more
CHS Essentials | How Old is our Iliad?
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry,”… Read more
Short Writings Volume III | “A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho,” by Gregory Nagy
Featured research on The Brothers Song and “Sappho’s sisterly identity” “What would be so delightful about songs expressing an aristocratic woman’s tormented feelings about a brother who squandered his family’s wealth on a courtesan in Egypt?” In an attempt to answer this question, Gregory Nagy comments on the “mixed feelings” of a sister on his essay “A Poetics of Sisterly Affect in the Brothers Song… Read more
Short Writings Volume III | “A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho,” by Gregory Nagy
Featured research on The Brothers Song and “Sappho’s sisterly identity” “What would be so delightful about songs expressing an aristocratic woman’s tormented feelings about a brother who squandered his family’s wealth on a courtesan in Egypt?” In an attempt to answer this question, Gregory Nagy comments on the “mixed feelings” of a sister on his essay “A Poetics of Sisterly Affect in the Brothers Song and in… Read more