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Diomède et la détresse de Nestor
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Space in Xenophon of Ephesus: Love, Dreams, and Dissemination
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Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung: Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik
Ordinarius für Griechische Philologie, Universität Basel 1. Was ist neu an der Neuen Sappho? Im Jahre 2002 konnte die Universität…
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Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education
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Chronological Table: Archaic Megara, 800-500 B.C.
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Theognidea and Megarian Society
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Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take
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Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius
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A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth
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Grieving Achilles
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The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor
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“Dream of a Shade”: Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
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Review of Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008)
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The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction
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Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry
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Review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen
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Review (part I) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)
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The earliest phases in the reception of the Homeric Hymns
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Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past
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Poetics of Repetition in Homer
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Poetics of Fragmentation in the Athyr Poem of C. P. Cavafy
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Performance and Text in Ancient Greece
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Orality and Literacy
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The Delian Maidens and their Relevance to Choral Mimesis in Classical Drama
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The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language
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The Epic Hero
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On Dialectal Anomalies in Pylian Texts
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The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach
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The Homer Multitext Project
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The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus
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The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture
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The Library of Pergamon as a Classical Model
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[Originally printed in Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (ed. Phillip Mitsis and Christos…
The Origins of Greek Poetic Language: Review (part II) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)
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The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus
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The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording
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Theognis and Megara: A Poet’s Vision of his City
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Things said and not said in a ritual text: Iguvine Tables Ib 10-16 / VIb 48-53
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Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater
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Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria
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Oral Traditions, Written Texts, and Questions of Authorship
[Originally published in The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion, ed. Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis, 59-77.
Observations on Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE
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Greek Literature: Introductions and Suggested Bibliographies
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An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia
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Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2
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Convergences and divergences between god and hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros
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Comments on Plutarch’s Essay On Isis and Osiris
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Ancient Greek Elegy
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Alcaeus in Sacred Space
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Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet? Symmetries of Myth and Ritual in Performing the Songs of Ancient Lesbos
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [Revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion…
Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [Forthcoming in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Mythology, edited…
A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [[Originally printed 2011 in Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (ed.
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A Sampling of Comments on the Iliad and Odyssey
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A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus
[[This essay was originally published in 2019 as chapter 12 of Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honour of James…
A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho
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Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey
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Different ways of expressing the idea of historiā in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides
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Lyric and Greek Myth
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents The printed version is published in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed.
Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions
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Language and Meter
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Hymnic Elements in Empedocles
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [A French-language version of this essay was printed in Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 24…
Homeric Poetry and Problems of Multiformity: The ‘Panathenaic Bottleneck’
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Homeric Echoes in Posidippus
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Homer as Model for The Ancient Library: Metaphors of Corpus and Cosmos
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Homer and Greek Myth
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Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt
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Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [This essay was originally published in No Tapping around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor…
Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited—with special reference to the “newest Sappho”
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Foreword to Mothers in Mourning, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Corinne Pache. Cornell University Press, 1998.
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within…
Foreword to Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Selina Stewart. Cornell University Press, 2000.
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Virgil’s verse invitus, regina … and its poetic antecedents
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [[This is an electronic version of an article originally published in More modoque: Die…
Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: I. Homer and Homeric Style
[This article was originally published in 1930 in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 41:73–148. The original page-numbers of the printed…
Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: II. The Homeric Language as the Language of an Oral Poetry
[This article was originally published in 1932 in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 43:1-50. The original pagination of the printed…
The Plot of Zeus
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Orality and Literacy (Persian translation)
Gregory Nagy Translated into Persian by Farnoosh Shamsian [[This article was first published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O.
Dialectal Differences at Knossos
[This text, “Woodard 1986,” was originally published as an article in Kadmos 25 (1986), 49–74. In this online version, the…
Further Thoughts on Linear B po-re-na, po-re-si, and po-re-no-
1. Introduction §1. Opinions have varied and swayed regarding the interpretation of the Linear B term po-re-na. Whatever meaning is…