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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essay 4

2022.11.07 | By Gregory Nagy Essay 4. Ritual “origins” of athletics 4§0. Here I invoke, as I have invoked in my earlier research on the ritual “origins” of Greek athletics (Nagy 1990a:118 at 4§4), the relevant evidence assembled by Walter Burkert in his handbook on Greek religion, showing that… Read more

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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essays 1-3

2022.10.17, 10.24, 10.31| By Gregory Nagy William Warby from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons MojNews, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons PAP, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons William Warby from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT,… Read more

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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia Essay 5: About a defeat of the Centaurs, and how to imagine such an event in Olympia

2022.10.10 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This essay picks up from where I left off in the previous essay. In the last paragraph of that essay, I focused on a myth that told about a defeat of the Centaurs, beastly hominoids who were half horse, half man. Such a mythological… Read more

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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 4: What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia

2022.10.03 | By Gregory Nagy §0. I have by now lost count of how many times in my life I have visited the Museum at Olympia. And I cannot keep track of knowing what different things I remembered to view, or forgot to view, each time I was there. But… Read more

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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

2022.09.26 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In the preceding essay, I was looking at the Olympics from the standpoint of an earlier time in Olympia, around 600 BCE, which is approximately the time when the Temple of Hērā was built there, and I stopped looking, for the moment, at the… Read more

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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 2: The Chest of Kypselos and a rhetoric of inclusiveness in visualizing the Olympics

2022.09.19 | By Gregory Nagy Reconstruction of the Chest of Kypselos, after Wilhelm von Massow, “Die Kypseloslade,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 41 (1916), Taf. 1. §0. The Chest of Kypselos, crafted in the early sixth century and once on display inside the Temple of Hera, is… Read more

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Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essay 4

Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Athleticism beyond Hēraklēs – Essays 1-3

Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia Essay 5: About a defeat of the Centaurs, and how to imagine such an event in Olympia

Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 4: What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia

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

Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part II: Viewing the Olympics through the lens of Olympia – Essay 2: The Chest of Kypselos and a rhetoric of inclusiveness in visualizing the Olympics