Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essays 1-3 2022.10.17, 10.24, 10.31| By Gregory Nagy William Warby from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons MojNews, CC…
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 2022.10.10 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This essay picks up from where I left off in the previous essay. In…
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…