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 3: The metopes of the Temple of Zeus and a rhetoric of occlusiveness in visualizing the Olympics 2022.09.26 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In the preceding essay, I was looking at the Olympics from the standpoint of…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part I: Twelve Olympian Essays – Essay 11: An Olympian man for 2022.08.29 | By Gregory Nagy §0. I rewrite here what was once a self-standing essay (Nagy 2019.05.10) written in…