Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 4: What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia 2022.10.03 | By Gregory Nagy §0. I have by now lost count of how many times in my life I…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 1: A rhetoric for visualizing Zeus and Hērā as overseers of the Olympics for 2022.09.12 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The ruins of the Temple of Hērā in Olympia, even today, are prominently…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part I: Twelve Olympian Essays – Essay 10: Variations of Mycenaean phases in the prototyping of Hēraklēs as a Strong Man for 2022.08.22 | By Gregory Nagy §0. There are Mycenaean phases—more than one Mycenaean phase—to be discovered in myths about…