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Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.09.13 §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, Pamphlet 7 in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is an updating of an earlier version (2020.11.03, listed under my name in the Bibliography), which was published online by the Center for Hellenic Studies, with… Read more

A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus.

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.09.10 §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, Pamphlet 6 in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about a ritual performed by ‘European’ Aeolians who travel yearly across the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor, visiting the tomb of the hero Achilles in… Read more

Yet another look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai

This inquiry is about finding survivals of Mycenaean Greek in Homeric diction. I focus on the Homeric infinitive phorēnai (φορῆναι), which I argue belongs to a dialectal group commonly known as Arcado-Cypriote. The form itself is a linguistic innovation, but the innovation is old, very old. I can say this if I succeed in showing that this form φορῆναι is already very old in terms of Homeric diction. And my… Read more

Greek myths about invasions and migrations during the so-called Dark Age

Part I: About the so-called Dorian Invasion Part II: About the so-called Aeolian Migration Part III: About the so-called Ionian Migration 2023.09.04 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, Pamphlet 4 in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about three events that… Read more

The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.22 §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, Pamphlet 3 in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about Aeolic, dialect of the Aeolians, and how this dialect pervaded “Homeric diction”—to use wording applied by Milman Parry to the formulaic system generated… Read more

Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work, second edition

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.21 §0. This online book, published on the website of Classical Continuum and to be listed hereafter in bibliographies under the entry “Nagy 2023.08.21,” is a second edition that supersedes an earlier online version, Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work, cited as… Read more

East of the Achaeans: Making up for a missed opportunity while reading Hittite texts

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.20 Figure 1. Hittite graffito: warrior with horsetail crested helmet, found at Boğazköy / Hattusa (HPC 308, following Vermeule 1987:146). Drawing by Jill Curry Robbins. Figure 2. Fresco fragment: warrior with horsetail crested helmet. From a fragment of a Mycenaean or “Achaean” painting… Read more

Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE

By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.19 §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, Pamphlet 1 in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about reconstructing the dialects of the Greek language as they existed in the era of the Mycenaean Empire. The subject of the essay is… Read more

Visualizing Progress in Homeric Greek (Persian translation)

What follows is a Persian translation of Gregory Crane’s “Visualizing Progress in Homeric Greek”, available in English online at: https://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2022/04/19/visualizing-progress-in-homeric-greek-1/. The translation is made available here courtesy of Aylar Mahmoudzadeh Sarabi. مصورسازی  پیشرفت در حماسۀ هومری گرگوری کرین برگردان فارسی: آیلار محمود‌زاده… Read more

Leopardi’s Homer: Lost in Translation?

Leopardi’s Homer: Lost in Translation? Giacomo Leopardi and his 1816 translation of the first book of the Odyssey 2023.08.03 | By Aldo Paolo Bottino Tutto si è perfezionato da Omero in poi, ma non la poesia (“From Homer onward everything got better, except poetry” Z 58). As Franco D’Intino… Read more