Rewritten in Classical Continuum 2023.12.29 from Classical Inquiries 2015.10.15 | By Gregory Nagy Mosaic showing theatrical masks of comedy and tragedy, from the Baths of Decius on the Aventine Hill, Rome, 2nd century CE. [image by antmoose, CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons This essay is dedicated to my… Read more
2023.12.28 | By Gregory Nagy [[copy-edited 2024 by Elizabeth Gipson and Alvin Zhou]] Detail from Attic krater attributed to the Brygos painter, 480-470 BCE. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel. Preface This book about the songs of Sappho is one of three standalone volumes that belong to a… Read more
2023.12.26 | By Gregory Nagy Preface This book about the songs of Sappho is one of three standalone volumes that belong to a series of works published in Classical Continuum—some of those works appear both online and in print while others appear only online. As I… Read more
2023.12.18 | By Gregory Nagy “Sappho” (modeled 1862, carved 1867), by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895). Image via Flickr, under a CC BY 2.0 license. Preface This book about the songs of Sappho is one of three standalone volumes… Read more
2023.11.02 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, included in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), consists of three parts. Part I and Part II, rewritten from essays first posted in 2019.05.31 and 2019.06.11, are the basis for a pre-edited presentation, dated November… Read more
2023.09.29 | By Gregory Nagy This pre-edited standalone essay is dedicated to my dear colleague and friend Pierre Judet de La Combe, on the occasion of a happy celebration, in Paris, of his radiant life and times. I start with a story told in a set of ancient myths about the life of Homer. In that story, Homer was blinded by a gleam of light that emanated from the shining bronze armor of… Read more
The Archaic Greek Poet as a professional or as a non-professional: five problematic cases 2023.06.06 | By Gregory Nagy This essay is a rewritten online version of a paper I presented at the 7th Open International Conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek… Read more
On the eclipse of Ajax as a most eligible suitor of Helen first version 2021.06.14, rewritten version 2023.06.26 | By Gregory Nagy The so-called Pasquino Group, identified as Ajax carrying the body of Achilles from the battlefield. Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic bronze original, with early modern restorations. Read more
posted 2021.06.24, to be reperformed 2021.06.30 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This presentation offers friendly criticism of the views of classicists who use such terms as "text" and "reperformance" without fully taking into account various comparative perspectives that have for some time been made available by way of typological descriptions of "live" performance as observed and analyzed in a wide variety of ethnographical studies. Read more
2022.07.25 | By Gregory Nagy §0. Applying methods of reconstruction as I outlined them in the Excursus of Essay 5, I will now start to reconstruct what I have described as Indo-European mythological traditions that shaped the role of Hēraklēs as an athlete, or, to say it better, the role… Read more