Ajax: Un héros qui vient de loin
This book, made available with the permission of Giampiero Scafoglio, focuses on the character of Ajax, an important hero in the Homeric Iliad and the so-called Epic Cycle. In the “Cyclic” Little Iliad, he is even the protagonist of an ethically dubious episode: the ‘judgment of arms’, with its tragic… Read more
Ancient Greek heroes, athletes, poetry Part III: Epilogue
2023.01.02 | By Gregory Nagy Epilogue §0. The book had started with Hippolytus the Charioteer and now ends with Achilles the Charioteer. By now we have seen the supreme prestige of charioteering as a primary form of athletics at the Olympics and at other Panhellenic festivals—most notably at the festival… Read more
Five essays, ready for newer annotations, centering on theories about oral traditions: Orality and literacy – Essay Five
Essay 5: Revisiting Plato’s Rhapsody 2022.2.06 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The text of this essay, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2020.06.26, is a pre-edited version of my contribution to an online colloquium, Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato, the collected essays for which reside in a special issue of Classics@;… Read more
Five essays, ready for newer annotations, centering on theories about oral traditions: Orality and literacy – Essay Four
Essay 4. Homeric problems and bibliographical challenges, Part II: More on the performances of rhapsodes at the festival of the Panathenaia 2022.1.30 | By Gregory Nagy 0. This essay, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.30, picks up from where I left off in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.22. Here again… Read more
Five essays, ready for newer annotations, centering on theories about oral traditions: Orality and literacy – Essay Three
Essay 3. Homeric problems and bibliographical challenges, Part I: On the performances of rhapsodes at the festival of the Panathenaia 2022.1.23 | By Gregory Nagy This essay was originally published in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.22. §0. No one who claims expertise in the study of Homer will ever have the… Read more