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The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor

Brandeis University [This essay was originally published in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 93 (1990), pp. 59–101. The original pagination is marked in brackets ‘{ }’, so, for example, the break between pages 59 and 60 will be as follows: {59|60}.] αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ κόσμηθεν ἅμ’ ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἕκαστοι Τρῶες μὲν κλαγγῇ τ’ ἐνοπῇ τ’ ἴσαν, ὄρνιθες ὥς, ἠΰτε περ κλαγγὴ γεράνων πέλει οὐρανόθι πρό αἳ τ’ ἐπεὶ… Read more

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My Daddy

back Antonia Nagy I have always admired Gregory Nagy the man. He is undeniably a remarkable person. Brilliant, friendly, funny, caring, and of course, passionate. He is an easy man to respect. But I am his daughter, so I have also always been critical of him as a father. But that is not my fault! I was raised by intellectuals who value the process of deductive reasoning. How could… Read more

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Four URLs, Limitless Apps: Separation of Concerns in the Homer Multitext Architecture

back D.N. Smith, C.W. Blackwell Abstract This paper summarizes both the underlying scholarly model and the implementation as network services of the scholarly repository of the Homer Multitext project (HMT). We fully expose the rich data repository of the HMT in four network services, keyed by citation of objects using URN notation. Introduction While Gregory Nagy’s prolific publication record will be familiar to all readers of this Festschrift, we… Read more

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Les déesses au métier : Isis et Perséphone tisserandes

back Françoise Labrique – Ioanna Papadopoulou 1. Perséphone arrhéphore Les pages qui suivent parlent du tissage, des dieux, de Grèce et d’Egypte. Nous avons choisi cette thématique pour rendre hommage à la réflexion de Gregory Nagy, qui s’intéresse tout particulièrement au tissage, mais qui est aussi comparatiste. Façon de rendre aussi hommage à un beau travail qui se réfère à l’Egypte, quand il associe la symbolique de la fondation… Read more