Classical Continuum

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

Annotations about archaic Greek lyric, Part 1: Archilochus, poet and cult-hero

Introduction to the series “Annotations about archaic Greek lyric” For English-speakers in the world of higher education, as of this writing, the introductory textbook most often assigned for the study of “archaic Greek lyric” (including elegiac and iambic poetry) has been Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric,… Read more

Observations on Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE: the original essay of 2011, updated in 2022 via annotations

2022.01.03 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The core of this essay (Nagy 2022.01.03) is an English-language version of a lecture I originally delivered in Athens, over ten years ago, at the Academy of Athens on the occasion of my induction as a corresponding member of the Academy (Nagy 2011.04.06). A… Read more

A Draft of the Forthcoming Book, Aeolian Origins, and Other Mycenaean Matters

What follows is a draft (dated 2021.12.31) of 23 chapters taken from the forthcoming book, Aeolian Origins, and Other Mycenaean Matters, by Roger D. Woodard.  [Chapter titles are linked in the Table of Contents on page 3.]… Read more

Things I have learned from students who have taken my seminars in Comparative Literature, Part 1

2021.12.27 | By Gregory Nagy §0. As an old teacher, I have often tried to encourage young colleagues who are launching their careers in teaching. I would be telling them stories about what could be described as “eureka moments” to be experienced in the process of teaching. But the Greek… Read more

On the picturing of an eagle flying down from Mount Ida

2021.12.20 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This brief set of comments is about two enormous mountain-ranges. One of the two dominates the central zone of the island of Crete and the other, the Plain of Troy. Both of these massive highlands were called Ida in the ancient world. And… Read more