back Marcel Detienne Des Grecs donc, parmi les Amérindiens, Indigènes ou natives, les Amérindiens font encore partie de certains paysages du Brésil. Malgré les conquêtes, les entreprises coloniales, ils n’ont pas le même statut que les Indiens d’Amérique du Nord. Car le Nord refuse, aujourd’hui encore, d’entendre parler d’autochtones :… Read more
back Anthony Snodgrass With academic subjects as with people, many a close and intimate relationship can become cool and distant. It may even be broken off altogether, and replaced by a different relationship. In the case of academic disciplines, such a transfer of affections can lead to a radical… Read more
back Philippe ROUSSEAU Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3 UMR 8163 «Savoirs, Textes, Langage» Dans une démonstration qui a fait date Gregory Nagy, analysant à la suite de L. Palmer l’étymologie la plus probable du nom d’Achille comme une forme abrégée d’un nom *Akhí-lawos « dont le laos est… Read more
back Natasha Bershadsky {1. The rain/opening credits [1] } Sheets and sheets of rain pouring over the Trojan plain. The rain falling on some dilapidated mudbrick structures. Zoom: the mudbrick slowly melting under the rain. Back to the broader view: now streams of water are… Read more
back Peter McMurray I. Can you see anything yet? “Well, Pyotr, can you see anything yet?” I first encountered these words, the opening line of Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons, shortly after finishing college. Having studied both Classics and Slavic literature, but really only Ancient Greek and South Slavic, I… Read more
back Homer and the Aegean prehistorian Anthony Snodgrass With academic subjects as with people, many a close and intimate relationship can become cool and distant. It may even be broken off altogether, and replaced by a different relationship. In the case of academic disciplines, such a transfer of affections… Read more
back Finismundo: The Last Voyage (Finismundo: A Última Viagem) Andrea Kouklanakis akouklan@fas.harvard.edu Abstract Finismundo: A Última Viagem (1990), written by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, uses Odysseus’ shipwreck as its foundational theme. In the Odyssey the question surrounding Odysseus’ death is articulated in ambiguous terms in book XI. Read more
back Richard P. Martin, Stanford University I like to think it fitting that I first met Gregory Nagy, some 40 years ago, at a puppet show. Fred Christie, then a Jesuit scholastic and graduate student at Harvard, had taken two of us, rather sceptical students of Greek from Boston College… Read more
back Claudia Filos Ἑλένης μὲν ταύτην ἄπιξιν παρὰ Πρωτέα ἔλεγον οἱ ἱρέες γενέσθαι. Δοκέει δέ μοι καὶ Ὅμηρος τὸν λόγον τοῦτον πυθέσθαι· ἀλλ’, οὐ γὰρ ὁμοίως ἐς τὴν ἐποποιίην εὐπρεπὴς ἦν τῷ ἑτέρῳ τῷ περ ἐχρήσατο, [ἐς ὃ] μετῆκε αὐτόν. The priests say that this is the way Helen… Read more
back Lisa Raphals For Greg Nagy Greg, the debts I owe you I can only repay to my students and others. But please accept this tiny token as, not a pelanos, but a small token of thanks, birthday wishes, incredulity, and warm regards. Yours, Lisa Origin and Sources This… Read more
