Homeric Odyssey
Translated by Samuel Butler Revised by Soo-Young Kim, Kelly McCray, Gregory Nagy, and Timothy Power [Go to Rhapsody 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,… Read more
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Homeric Iliad
Translated by Samuel Butler Revised by Soo-Young Kim, Kelly McCray, Gregory Nagy, and Timothy Power [Go to Rhapsody 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,… Read more
Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for… Read more
Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr., Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 58, published in print in 2013 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The print version is available for purchase via Harvard University Press here. To download an e-book version of this book in epub format, click here. Read more
Virgil’s verse invitus, regina … and its poetic antecedents
[[This is an electronic version of an article originally published in More modoque: Die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident. Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag (ed. P. Fodor, Gy. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács) 155–165. Budapest 2013. The original page-numbers of the printed version will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{155|156}” indicates where p. 155 of the… Read more
Egbert J. Bakker, Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 12, originally published in 2005 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here. Read more
Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Chapter 5. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Conclusion My goal in this study has been to consider three famous lyric quotations in their respective contexts within the works of Plato. The interpretation of the Simonides poem in the Protagoras, I argued in chapter two, is an integral part of the dialogue between Socrates and his interlocutor, the sophist Protagoras. Although Socrates’ exegesis has been regarded by many as a lengthy digression which adds nothing… Read more
Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Chapter 2. Simonides’ Ode to Scopas in the Protagoras
Chapter 2. Simonides’ Ode to Scopas in the Protagoras One of the most controversial topics in the study of Greek lyric poetry centers on Simonides’ poem to Scopas and its role in the Protagoras. Uncertainties remain concerning the genre to which the poem belongs, the poem’s original setting and intent, and the interpretations of the poem by Protagoras and Socrates. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct Simonides’ poem from the quotations in… Read more