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Achilles and Odysseus, formulaic counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum (Persian translation)

What follows is a Persian translation of Gregory Crane’s “Achilles and Odysseus, formulaic counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum”, available online at: https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/achilles-and-odysseus-formulaic-counterparts-of-tweedle-dee-and-tweedle-dum/. The translation is made available here courtesy of Farnoosh Shamsian. آخیلئوس و اُدوسئوس، همتایان الگومند دوقلوهای آلیس در سرزمین عجایب گرگوری کرین… Read more

Achilles and Odysseus, formulaic counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum

2022.02.17| By Gregory R. Crane [Click here to view this article translated into Persian.] I note here something that I discovered recently that surprised me and that I hope to explore more fully in the near future: the Greek names Ἀχιλλεύς and Ὀδυσσεύς are, from a metrical point of… Read more

Comments on comparative mythology 1, about Apollo

2020.02.14, rewritten 2022.02.14 | By Gregory Nagy Inscribed, by the hand of Georges Dumézil, on the front page of a copy of his book, Apollon sonore, 1982. §0. This essay, posted in Classical Continuum and dated for Valentine’s Day 2022.02.14, is a rewriting of an essay posted in Classical… Read more

Nick Allen of Oxford, anthropologist extraordinaire: some comments on his thinking about myth and epic, Part I

2022.02.07| By Gregory Nagy I§0. The lamented death of my friend Nicholas Justin Allen on 21 March 2020 has taken away from me the intellectual delight of debating with him viva voce, time and again, about matters of intense mutual interest. In particular, our amicable debates tended to center on… Read more

Pausanias 2.32.3-4, on the hero cults of Phaedra and Hippolytus at Troizen

2022.01.31 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This standalone essay is an annotation for Pausanias 2.32.3–4, where our traveler makes comments on a hero cult of Phaedra, not only of Hippolytus, at Troizen. What Pausanias says in this passage is most relevant, I think, to what we read in the Hippolytus of… Read more

A Pausanias Reader in progress: Description of Greece, Scrolls 1–10

An ongoing retranslation based on an original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H.A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes added by Jones. The retranslation, to date, is by Gregory Nagy | 2018.07.27* To cite this work, use the following persistent identifier:… Read more

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours: Sourcebook

Executive Editors: Keith DeStone, Sarah Scott Production Manager, Center for Hellenic Studies: Noel Spencer Production Editor, HarvardX: Sarah Scott A collection of open-source English translations of Classical texts for use with the EdX course The Ancient Greek Hero. Read more

A Pausanias commentary in progress, restarted

2022.01.24 | By Gregory Nagy Here in Classical Continuum, I restart what I had described as an ongoing project in a posting for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2020.08.07): https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/ongoing-comments-on-a-pausanias-reader-in-progress/. My description there, in the introduction to that post, is by now out of date. At the time of my writing that introduction,… Read more

By Gregory Nagy

Poetics of Repetition in Homer, second edition, ready for annotation

2022.01.17 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This article was originally published in 2004 in Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos) 139–148. Hellenic Studies 3. Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC. There followed an online version (Nagy 2020.11.02), which, like the earlier printed version, did not… Read more

Meetings on Aegean Studies (MASt)

MASt – Summer Seminar 2021 (Friday, July 23): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion

2021.01.13 | By Rachele Pierini and Tom Palaima [This article was originally published in Classical Inquiries.] §1. The Summer session of the MASt@CHS seminars represented a unicum within our series. Although we used the usual formula of the MASt@CHS seminars (two presentations, each followed by a debate session),… Read more

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