گرگوری ناژ برگردان فارسی: فرنوش شمسیان1 What follows is a Persian translation of Gregory Nagy’s “Poetics of Repetition in Homer” by Farnoosh Shamsian. The article was first published in Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos; Cambridge, MA and… Read more
2022.04.25 | By Gregory Nagy [For the Greek text and for my working translation, see Part I.] §0. Here in Part II of my two-part essay on Sibyls as we see them described by Pausanias, I analyze some salient divergences in the details reported by our traveler about various… Read more
2022.04.18 | By Gregory Nagy For this compressed essay commenting on Pausanias 10.12.1–11, I have chosen as illustration a combination of two pictures that are both relevant to my overall view of these eleven paragraphs composed by our traveler. One of these pictures is a close-up of the face of… Read more
2022.04.11 | By Gregory Nagy §0. While describing the Temple of Zeus in Olympia—that most celebrated building located in that most celebrated site for a most celebrated seasonally recurring event, the Olympics—the traveler Pausanias confines to a single paragraph, 5.10.9, his description of the heroic deeds represented by the marble… Read more
2022.04.04 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In the passage I quote and translate here from Pausanias 3.25.5–6, our traveler is citing Homeric references to a monster described as ‘the hound of Hādēs’, commonly known as Cerberus, Pausanias must have in mind what we can read at Iliad 8.368 and at… Read more
2022.03.19 | Gregory Crane The study of Greco-Roman culture can exert a purposeful and transformative role in Europe’s development of a more just multinational and multiethnic society. This is a topic about which I have thought and on which I have spoken for years. Technology has begun to change the… Read more
2022.03.28 | By Gregory Nagy [[For illustrations, I repeat all the images shown in Classical Inquiries 2019.03.22, https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/what-pausanias-saw-when-he-looked-up-at-the-pediments-of-the-temple-of-zeus-in-olympia/. I start by showing an image of the head of “Apollo” in the cover illustration, but then, in the next illustration, right after §0, at the beginning of the commentary, I show the… Read more
2022.03.28, replacing the version in C.I. 2018.04.20 | By Gregory Nagy The comments in this posting about the Herakles of Euripides derive from a set of compressed notes I had started writing in 1999. These notes were meant as a companion to the Herakles as translated by Robert Potter—his translations of Euripides first appeared in two volumes, 1781 and 1783—and as adapted by Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott in 1999. Read more
2022.03.21 | By Gregory Nagy {5.10.1} πολλὰ μὲν δὴ καὶ ἄλλα ἴδοι τις ἂν ἐν Ἕλλησι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀκούσαι θαύματος ἄξια· μάλιστα δὲ τοῖς Ἐλευσῖνι δρωμένοις καὶ ἀγῶνι τῷ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ μέτεστιν ἐκ θεοῦ φροντίδος. τὸ δὲ ἄλσος τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Διὸς παραποιήσαντες τὸ ὄνομα Ἄλτιν ἐκ παλαιοῦ καλοῦσι·… Read more
2022.03.18 | By Gregory Nagy §14 National Archaeological Museum of Athens Based on CI_2016.06.24 [via 2016.06.17 via 2016.03.14], rewritten 2018.03.05, 2022.02.28, and now 2022.03.18 statue of Phrasikleia, reunited with the base of the statue; housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens; picture here via Wikimedia Commons. §14.1. Read more