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 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…