Mentalities of sacrifice in Indic and Greek traditions Gregory Nagy, Harvard University Introduction Ever since I was a graduate student, I have been comparing the traditions of India and Greece. As a Classicist, however, that is, as a researcher who studies Greco-Roman civilization by way of analyzing texts written in… Read more
Why People Need Epics: Terming and Learning from the Divine Yet Human Shubha Pathak, American University A common misconception about classical texts is that they have little to do with us if we are far removed from the times when and places where these texts were composed. But, as persisting… Read more
Fox and Jackal: The Individual against the Collective Arti Mehta, Howard University Everyone knows the story of the ant and the grasshopper, or the one about the fox walking away from the “sour” grapes. As children, we read, or had read to us, these tales of animals, and even plants,… Read more
Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles Douglas Frame, Center for Hellenic Studies In Mahābhārata Book 6, as a disastrous war between cousins is about to begin, huge forces on both sides are poised for action, but the action does not begin. It… Read more
L’autonomie paradoxale ou le politique à l’épreuve des expériences d’Antigone « la séditieuse » Maria Eleonora Sanna Mon propos est une invitation à re-lire ensemble les études de Nicole Loraux sur l’Antigone de Sophocle (je fais référence à La main d’Antigone qui date de 1986 et au texte écrit en… Read more
Classics@11: The Rhetoric of Abuse in Greek Literature Edited by Håkan Tell This volume grew out of the frustration I encountered after talking to colleagues who were interested in exploring abuse in ancient Greek literature. Though we seemed to share similar perspectives on the importance of abuse in Greek literature,… Read more
Greek Ways of Speaking (Aggressively): The Case of υπολαβων εφη [*] Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley When the ancient Greeks first start writing mimetic prose narrative, where do they get the narrative resources for that? In particular, I’m interested in the verbal and stylistic… Read more
The Pragmatics of Verbal Abuse in Homer [*] Giuseppe Lentini, Sapienza University of Rome Introduction By employing recent work done in the discipline of Pragmatics (Historical Pragmatics; (Im)politeness studies), this paper aims to sketch out a typology and a description of the dynamics of… Read more
Anytus and the Rhetoric of Abuse in Plato’s Apology and Meno Håkan Tell, Dartmouth College πεφύκασι δ’ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν φιλοσόφων τῶν κωμικῶν κακήγοροι μᾶλλον εἶναι. Most philosophers are naturally more disposed to slander than the comic playwrights. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 5.220a The subject of this paper is the rhetorical strategies… Read more
Theologies as Alternative Histories: John Romanides and Chrestos Yannaras Nicolas Prevelakis From the 1950s to the 1980s, there has been a revival of interest for Orthodox Christianity in Greece. The main authors associated with this revival are often referred to as “neo-Orthodox.” [1] Influenced by… Read more
