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 for 2022.09.26 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In the preceding essay, I was looking at the Olympics from the standpoint…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 1: A rhetoric for visualizing Zeus and Hērā as overseers of the Olympics for 2022.09.12 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The ruins of the Temple of Hērā in Olympia, even today, are prominently…
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part I: Twelve Olympian Essays – Essay 12: Olympian women, Olympian girls, Olympian running 2022.09.05| By Gregory Nagy §0. In this essay, I will quote and translate and comment on an ancient text about…