Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
28 April 2021, 3:00 pm ET
Join us for a live reading and discussion of the Argonautica with guest speaker Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky). Read more
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Comparatism from a Disciplinary Perspective
21 April 2021, 2:00 pm ET
Johannes Haubold (Princeton University) on Classics and Assyriology. Read more
Visiting Artist Presentation: Steriani Tsintziloni
9 April 2021, 11:30 am ET
Part of the CHS Visiting Artist Presentation Series, the event features Steriani Tsintziloni, a dance researcher, curator, lecturer, dramaturg, and former dancer. Read more
Review of Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008)
[This article is a draft of a review later published in Journal of Hellenic Studies 131 (2011) 166–169 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426911000127). Page numbers for that publication have been added in curly brackets. For instance, {166|167} indicates the break between pages 166 and 167.] For the author (hereafter LF), the… Read more
Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius
[[This article was originally published in 2012 in Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (edited by M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, and G. C. Wakker) 131-162, Peeters Publishers: Leuven. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within braces in this electronic version: for example, {131|132} marks where p. Read more
“Dream of a Shade”: Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This is an electronic version of an article that appeared in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 97–118. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{97|98}” indicates where p. Read more
“Mixed Aorists” in Homeric Greek
“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… Read more
Epic
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This essay is a 2010 online version of an original printed version that appeared as Chapter 1 in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, ed. Richard Eldridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) 19-44. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the… Read more
The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents Originally published in J. K. Berenson Maclean and E. B. Aitken, eds., Flavius Philostratus, Heroikos (Atlanta 2001) xv-xxxv. The original pagination,which was indicated in roman numerals, will be indicated in this electronic version by way of the corresponding arabic numerals within braces (“{“ and… Read more
The Epic Hero
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents To refer to this work, please cite it this way: Nagy, G. 2006. “The Epic Hero,” 2nd ed. (on-line version), http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:Nagy.The_Epic_Hero.2005. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. The 1st ed. (printed version) of “The Epic Hero” appeared in 2005, A Companion to Ancient… Read more