back Claude Calame, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; translation by James Kierstead, Stanford University Comparative analysis has always been one of the foundation stones of cultural and social anthropology, of both historical and synchronic approaches. During the eighteenth century, encounters between missionaries and “savages” in the New… Read more
back Henry Bayerle, Oxford College of Emory University 1. Speech Genres and Rhetorical Analysis The purpose of this paper is to describe the speeches of Medieval Latin historical epic in terms of speech genre. Generic expectations informed the reading and writing of poetry in Antiquity, as Francis Cairns illustrated… Read more
back Alexander J. Beecroft, University of South Carolina Like many teaching fellows in “The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization” before and after me, I recall discussing with my students one of the key phenomena which Gregory Nagy elucidates for his students, and for his scholarly readers: the… Read more
back Alexander Hollmann View from Delphi down the valley to Itea, 2006 View of East Pediment of the Parthenon, August, 2005 Theatre of Dionysus, August, 2005 Nightscape of the Acropolis, July, 2012… Read more
back Michael W. Taylor How much of the fatal policy of states, and of the miseries and degradations of social man, have been occasioned by the false notions of honor inspired by the works of Homer, it is not easy to ascertain … My veneration for his genius is… Read more
back Anita Nikkanen [1] In this paper I explore the role of memory in Homeric epic in social contexts and, in particular, in reciprocity. [2] I focus on the Odyssey. Through analyzing the occurrences of mimnēskomai, ‘remember’, and other… Read more
back Thomas Figueira It is tempting to justify this contribution in honor of Greg Nagy by invoking his interest in the Aiakidai, to whose appearance in several important literary contexts he has adverted in various works [1] and to whose Urvater, Aiakos, he has… Read more
Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum A virtual birthday gift presented to Gregory Nagy on turning seventy by his students, colleagues, and friends Acknowledgments The editorial team wishes to thank all the contributors for their hard work and patience over the five years… Read more
