The Dancing Peacock in the Buddhist Jātaka-s: a link with Herodotus? 2022.12.05 | By Gregory Nagy This essay is a pre-edited and pre-printed version of a paper I delivered on…
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 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…