Poetry of Sappho Translated by Gregory Nagy Sappho 1 (“Prayer to Aphrodite”) 1 You with pattern-woven flowers, immortal Aphrodite, 2 child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, I implore you, 3 do not devastate with aches and sorrows, 4 Mistress, my heart! 5 But… Read more
[This article was originally published in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry (eds. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and C. Tsagalis) 165–173 (Walter de Gruyter, 2011).] In this paper I wish to suggest some of the possibilities offered by a new approach to interpreting Iliad 10, the so-called Doloneia. I… Read more
Harvard University [This review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen (Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab; The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. 440 S. 16 Abb. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 4.) appeared in Gnomon 86 (2014) 97-101. The original… Read more
[Originally printed in Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (ed. Phillip Mitsis and Christos Tsagalis; Trends in Classics vol. 7; Berlin and New York 2010) 153-167. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {153|154} marks… Read more
The mission of the CHS is to bring together a variety of research and teaching interests centering on Hellenic civilization in the widest sense of the term “Hellenic.” This concept encompasses the evolution of the Greek language and its culture as a central point of contact for all the different… Read more
For Taylor Acknowledgments This book contains ten essays that have been edited and revised—and in the case of the final one, substantially expanded for this collection. The essays have been arranged so as to indicate relations that suggested themselves as I reviewed the group. The first one, “Language and… Read more
[[This article was first published in 2008 in Archilochus and his Age II (ed. D. Katsonopoulou, I. Petropoulos, S. Katsarou) 259-265. The original pagination of the article will be indicated in this electronic version by way of curly brackets (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{259|260}” indicates where p. 259 of… Read more
Complete Short Writings of Gregory Nagy Listed In Alphabetical Order “Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity.” Forthcoming, in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, ed. Kimberley Patton, I.B. Tauris, 2013. Not for quotation or distribution. “The Aeolic Component… Read more
A Comprehensive List of Online Short Writings by Gregory Nagy Listed In Alphabetical Order “Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity.” Forthcoming, in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, ed. Kimberley Patton, I.B. Tauris, 2013. Not for quotation or distribution. Read more
[Originally published as Chapter 10 in Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, ed. R. Gagné and M. G. Hopman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 227-256. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{227|228}” indicates where p. 227 of… Read more
