Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth Revised by the Seven Against Thebes Heroization team (Hélène Emeriaud, Kelly Lambert, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Keith DeStone) The Acropolis of Thebes, in which stand altars and images of various divinities. A large gathering of citizens of Thebes. Enter Eteokles with attendants. Eteokles Men of Kadmos’s city [polis], he who guards from the stern the concerns of the State and guides… Read more
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC [This lecture was presented on April 29, 2015 at the Conference Room of the Athens Archaeological Society. It was sponsored by Center for Odyssean Studies and is made available here by their permission. Click here to download a PDF of the handout that was distributed at the lecture.] In Book 13 of the Odyssey the Phaeacians bring a sleeping Odysseus to the shores… Read more
[UFMG] [This article was originally published in Phaos, volume 4, pp. 5-38 (2004). In this online version, the original page-numbers are indicated within braces (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{5|6}” indicates where p. 5 of the original article ends and p. 6 begins. ] Resumo: Os primeiros sinais explícitos na Ilíada do cumprimento da promessa de Zeus à Tétis – o raio lançado aos Aqueus e depois diante do carro… Read more
[This essay was originally published in Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian , ed. Ewen Bowie, 109–122. Trends in Classics 59. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. It is published here with permission of de Gruyter. In this online edition, the original page numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{109|110}” indicates where p. 109 of the print edition ends and p. 110 begins.] [… Read more
[Originally published in The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion, ed. Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis, 59-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. In this online version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within curly brackets (“{“ 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… Read more
FALE-UFMG [This article was originally published 2009 in Nuntius antiquus, vol. 4, 162-180. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within curly brackets in this version: for example, {162|163} marks where p. 162 stops and p. 163 begins. The article appears here by courtesy of the author.] RESUMO: Este artigo apresenta e comenta três tipos de comida possível (as frutas, os legumes e os gansos de Penélope) que na… Read more
Depto. de Letras Clássicas Faculdade de Letras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais [This article was originally published 1998/1999 in Classica 11/12: 271-280. It is published here by permission of the editors. In this online version, the original page numbers are indicated within braces (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{271|272}” indicates where p. 271 of the original article ends and p. 272 begins.] pour Filomena Hirata RESUMO: Estudo breve sobre a… Read more
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Brasil Abstract: Commentary on an enigmatic scene of book VI of the Iliad: the exchange of Glaucos’ golden armour for Diomedes’ bronze armour. Discussion of this kind of gift and counter-gift (between xeînoi) in this Homeric poem, as well as of the motif that would cause Zeus to “take reason from Glaucos”, leading him to accept such an unfavourable and disproportionate exchange. Keywords: exchange;… Read more
Faculté de Lettres – UFMG [This text is a reduced, revised version of “O ranking do lazer,” which was originally published in Ensaios de escola (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2003, p. 148-161).]* §1. Pendant les vacances d’été au mois de janvier, un groupe de quatre couples (hétérosexuels) – qui ne se connaissent pas bien entre eux, mais qui ont tous, aussi bien les hommes que… Read more
Teodoro Rennó Assunção Faculté de Lettres Université Fédérale de Minas Gerais (Brésil) [This article was originally published in Classica: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, São Paulo, 7/8: 53-62, 1994/1995. It is made available here by permission of the editor-in-chief of Classica.] Résumé: Cet article vise à critiquer la conception de la mort héroïque proposée par Jean-Pierre Vernant dans l’article « La belle mort est le cadavre outragé ». Il part de la… Read more
