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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia Essay 5: About a defeat of the Centaurs, and how to imagine such an event in Olympia for 2022.10.10 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This essay picks up from where I left off in the previous essay.
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…
Part I: Twelve Olympian Essays – Essay 8: A Mycenaean Hēraklēs, always a kingmaker and never a king 2022.08.08 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In a separate work, Nagy 2019.10.11, “Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns,”…