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The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language

[Originally published 2007 in Classical World 100:151–157, 10.1353/clw.2007.0017. Second edition, published online 2015.] In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book. §1. Almost… Read more

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Selections from Sappho

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 come here [tuide], if ever at any other time   6  hearing my voice from afar,   7  you heeded… Read more

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Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century

[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 have recently completed a series of essays and a commentary on Iliad 10 with my colleague Mary Ebbott (Dué and… Read more

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Review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen

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 pagination of the review will be indicated in this electronic version by way of brackets (“{” and “}”). For example,… Read more

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The meaning of homoios (ὁμοῖος) in verse 27 of the Hesiodic Theogony and elsewhere

[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 where p. 153 stops and p. 154 begins.] 01)     ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι, κάκ᾿ ἐλέγχεα, γαστέρες οἶον, ἴδμεν ψεύδεα… Read more

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A Return to Athens Dialogues

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 civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world. Interaction with foreign cultures, including the diffusion of Roman influence, is an integral part… Read more

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Acknowledgments

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 the Female in Early Greek Thought,” sets the stage for those that come after by introducing the basic theme of… Read more

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Convergences and divergences between god and hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros

[[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 the printed article ends and p. 260 begins.]] In his pathfinding book, Archilochos Heros, Diskin Clay has questioned the applicability… Read more

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Complete Short Writings of Gregory Nagy

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 in Homeric Diction.” Expanded online edition of an article originally published in 2011 in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual… Read more

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A Comprehensive List of Online Short Writings by Gregory Nagy

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. “The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction.” Expanded online edition of an article originally published in 2011 in Proceedings… Read more