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
2022.03.28, replacing the version in C.I. 2018.04.20 | By Gregory Nagy The comments in this posting about the Herakles of Euripides derive from a set of compressed notes I had started writing in 1999. These notes were meant as a companion to the Herakles as translated by Robert Potter—his translations of Euripides first appeared in two volumes, 1781 and 1783—and as adapted by Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott in 1999. Read more
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
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
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