2021.11.15 | By Gregory Nagy §0. My memory takes me back to a timeless moment I once experienced on the island of Crete. I am nearing the proud old city of Réthymno along a road leading there from Iráklio, when I see something. Relevant, I now think, to what I… Read more
2021.11.10 | By Natasha Bershadsky John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), Penelope at her loom (1864). Image via Wikimedia Commons. There are two girls, or young women, portrayed on John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s painting called Penelope. Both are barefoot; neither is cheerful. One, who is seated, is… Read more
2021.11.08, re-written 2022.04.30 | By Gregory Nagy John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), Penelope at Her Loom. Private collection. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to the work of Jill Robbins, the image shown here has been lightened and sharpened slightly—and the contrast has been adjusted—in order to improve… Read more
2021.11.01, re-written 2021.11.07 | By Gregory Nagy John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), Penelope at her loom (1864). Image via Wikimedia Commons. §0. This essay connects—and updates—arguments I have presented in previous writings that are listed under my name in the Bibliography below and that are hereafter abbreviated… Read more
10.31.21 | by Johanna Hanink Renderings of stills from a scene from Netflix’s 2020 miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor. §1. In a scene from Netflix’s 2020 miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor, Bly’s housekeeper Hannah Grose (T’Nia Miller) interviews an applicant, Owen Sharma (Rahul Kohli) for the position… Read more
2021.10.26 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In this essay about online annotation, I write in the role of an occasional contributor of submissions to the editorial team of Classical Continuum—not in my original role as a founding editor of this online journal. The hope… Read more
2021.10.18 | By Gregory Nagy Neoptolemos/Pyrrhos holding the helmet of Achilles as he receives the armor of Achilles from Odysseus. 490-480 BCE, by the painter Douris. Link: Vienna 3695 This brief essay is a continuation of my ongoing research centering on myths about a competition between Ajax… Read more
2021.10.11 | By Gregory Nagy and Olga M. Davidson §1. A shorter version of this essay is to be jointly presented by the two authors as an introduction to a topic assigned for discussion in Panel 1 on the first day of a three-day colloquium, “Homer 2021,” scheduled for October… Read more
2021.10.01 | By Gregory Nagy Third Edition online 2021, launched October 1, as a special issue in Classical Continuum superseding Second Edition online 2020, launched July 3, as a special issue in Classical Inquiries Table of Contents Chapter 1. Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia… Read more
2021.10.01 | By Leonard Muellner This is an inaugural posting of Classical Continuum, a new blog for both short and longer publication of research in the broad category of “classical” civilizations – in other words, not just Ancient Greece and Rome, but Classical Arabic, Classical Persian, Classical Chinese, Classical K’iche’,… Read more