Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor This 1983 book of Jenny Strauss Clay, The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, is such an encounter. She wrote it in an era when the majority of Classicists responded to the methodology of Milman Parry and Albert Lord by splitting into two mutually exclusive schools of thought, with one side assuming… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor This 1983 book of Jenny Strauss Clay, The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, is such an encounter. She wrote it in an era when the majority of Classicists responded to the methodology of Milman Parry and Albert Lord by splitting into two mutually exclusive schools of thought, with one side assuming… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk, is a volume that evolved out of a 1997 Homer Seminar in Harvard University’s Classics Department. That year, the seminar was conducted jointly by Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule and myself, and it was attended regularly by Charles Segal (traces of whose helpful advice are evident… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk, is a volume that evolved out of a 1997 Homer Seminar in Harvard University’s Classics Department. That year, the seminar was conducted jointly by Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule and myself, and it was attended regularly by Charles Segal (traces of whose helpful advice are evident… 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… 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
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
