Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essay 4 2022.11.07 | By Gregory Nagy Essay 4. Ritual “origins” of athletics 4§0. Here I invoke, as I have invoked…
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 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…