A Sampling of Comments on the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, by Gregory Nagy, restarted 2022 These comments on the Iliad and Odyssey first appeared as serialized postings in Classical Inquiries 2016–2017. The work is a selective commentary based mostly on details…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 4: What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia 2022.10.03 | By Gregory Nagy §0. I have by now lost count of how many times in my life I…
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…