Recommendation FAQ If you are submitting a letter of reference for a fellowship applicant, we recommend that you read this page explaining the recommendation process before trying to submit your letter of reference. In the online fellowship application, an applicant has the opportunity to register up to three recommenders. The applicant who has asked you to submit a recommendation should register your name and e-mail address in his/her application. Read more
Online Application FAQ Before you start your online Fellowship application, we recommend that you review this page, which will be updated frequently. Last update October 19, 2009. Application Do I have to complete my application online? Can I mail you a paper copy? All those interested in applying for a Fellowship must do so electronically. The application and the recommendation letters must be submitted electronically. Support for the online… Read more
I would like to thank Henriette for sharing my words with you today: for allowing me to express, in my not always comprehensible idiomatic American English, deep sorrow at Jørgen’s untimely death, and profound thanks for his remarkable life. As soon as Henriette phoned me at mid-day on Monday, which was Labor Day in the US, to tell me that Jørgen had suddenly departed from our midst, I undertook the… Read more
“This work is eclectic. It is neither a bibliographical survey nor an exhaustive chronicle of progress. The main purpose is simply to explore various trends in research on the Greek language. Part I deals with generalities, while Part II concentrates on various different levels of linguistic analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax, etymology / vocabulary, and dialectology.” —From the Introduction… Read more
The Derveni Papyrus: An Interdisciplinary Research Project Editors : Leonard Muellner, G. Nagy, Ioanna Papadopoulou Information Architects: Saïd Esteban Belmehdi, Julien Razanajao, François Recher. Over the last 45 years the text of the Derveni Papyrus has undergone extensive reconstruction and study. Theokritos Kouremenos, George M. Parássoglou, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou have been among the leaders of this effort, publishing an authoritative text of the papyrus along with extensive commentary in 2006… Read more
2. Ωἵσετε One class of “mixed aorists” consists of the imperatives ἄξετε and ἄξεσθε, οἶσε οἴσετε and οἰσέτω, ὄψεσθε (the singular imperative ὄψεο· ἰδέ often cited as from Hesychius is actually a conjecture of Cobet’s, which Latte does not accept in his edition [1] ); the secondary tense form ἄξοντο; and the infinitives ἀξέμεν and ἀξέμεναι, οἰσέμεν and οἰσέμεναι. [2 ]… Read more
1. The History of the “Mixed Aorist” Problem The “mixed aorist” forms have been a subject for scholarly dispute as long as Homeric scholarship has existed. Aristarchus considered the problem of determining the correct spelling. At K 513, the scholia of Venetus A tell us that Aristarchus read ἐπεβήσετο but others ἐπεβήσατο. At Γ 262, Aristarchus preferred βήσετο, but refrained from altering the text, which had βήσατο: προκρίνει μὲν τὴν… Read more
Introduction The Homeric poems provide some of the easiest reading in Greek literature, as well as some of the most rewarding, and so we are introduced to them at an early stage in our study of the language. But when we learn more, we discover that Homeric Greek is not so simple after all. Some of its phenomena remain unexplained after two millenia of scholarship. For instance, we come across… Read more
Author’s Preface In the past seventeen years the so-called “mixed aorists” have not exactly mounted the chariot of controversy. There are, however, a few articles which should be mentioned now that this thesis is being published, without change except for the addition of this preface. [1] In 1971, M. I. Slavyatinskaya published a short article in Russian on “The Meaning and Usage of the… Read more
back Richard Sacks, Columbia University Deep in the underworld of Odyssey 11, the poem pauses at lines 119-137 to tell its audience of Odysseus telling his Phaiakian audience of Teiresias telling our hero that even after the conclusion of all his efforts, he will still be faced with the post-νόστος necessity of coming to terms with Poseidon, and of doing so in a place defined by “sea-lessness,” a feature… Read more
