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 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…