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 2: The Chest of Kypselos and a rhetoric of inclusiveness in visualizing the Olympics 2022.09.19 | By Gregory Nagy Reconstruction of the Chest of Kypselos, after Wilhelm von Massow, “Die Kypseloslade,” Mitteilungen des…
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…