Classical Continuum

Invoking Achilles: Black-figure Iconography and Hero Cult

By Stan Burgess | 2023.05.17 1§1. An over-scaled winged warrior, far larger than life-size, carrying two spears and a Boeotian shield, darts from left to right above a ship under oars towards its bow. The warrior dwarfs the ship. He appears to have flown from a curvilinear black and white… Read more

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The Timing of Homeric Performance: A Response to Muellner’s ‘Odyssey 15’

Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame (on right), viewing the 4th Century BCE Bouleuterion at the site of the Panionia, near sunset. Photo by Alex Herda, with permission By Douglas Frame | 2023.05.08 In his Question No. 1 Leonard Muellner discusses the non-employment of ring composition and the non-application of… Read more

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Odyssey 15

By Leonard Muellner | 2023.05.01 This essay, posted 2023.05.01 in Classical Continuum, is a “preprint” and pre-edited version of a text submitted to the Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey, edited by Joel P. Christensen, forthcoming. Telemachus with Athena as Mentor (1810). Drawing by John Flaxman. Image via Wikimedia… Read more

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About “The Windows” by C.P. Cavafy

From a virtual tour created by Luke Hollis. Notes by Gregory Nagy 2023.04.28 The outside glimpsed from the window pictured here as the cover for my notes is the metropolis of Alexandria in today’s Egypt. The interior from which this exterior is viewed happens to be… Read more

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On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae

This work investigates, based on a digital model and a solar analysis, the cultural and mythical dimensions of architectural elements, the iconography, site, and articulation of the Classical temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, where the earliest use of the Corinthian order is attested in the form of a single… Read more

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Ajax: Un héros qui vient de loin

This book, made available with the permission of Giampiero Scafoglio, focuses on the character of Ajax, an important hero in the Homeric Iliad and the so-called Epic Cycle. In the “Cyclic” Little Iliad, he is even the protagonist of an ethically dubious episode: the ‘judgment of arms’, with its tragic… Read more

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Invoking Achilles: Black-figure Iconography and Hero Cult

The Timing of Homeric Performance: A Response to Muellner’s ‘Odyssey 15’

Odyssey 15

About “The Windows” by C.P. Cavafy

On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae

Ajax: Un héros qui vient de loin