By Gregory Nagy The Plataea Elegy of Simonides and questions about the reception of his poetry in Athens Read more
By Gregory Nagy A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales Read more
By Gregory Nagy, A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Part I and Part II of Richard P. Martin’s Mythologizing Performance Read more
By Gregory Nagy An admiring editor’s musings about his foreword to a book by Richard P. Martin Read more
By Gregory Nagy How myths that connect the hero Philoctetes with the goddess Chryse are related to myths about a koúrē ‘girl’ named Chryseis Read more
By Gregory Nagy Sappho’s Aphrodite, the goddess Chryse, and a primal ordeal suffered by Philoctetes in a tragedy of Sophocles Read more
Glimpses of two different myths about two different visits by Philoctetes to the sacred island of the goddess Chryse Read more