In the aftermath: Surviving the Bronze Age Collapse and looking back to look forward—Papers and Summary of the Discussion held at the Fall 2023 MASt Seminar (Friday, October 20) Dedicating the Fall 2023 MASt seminar to the memory of Diane Harris Cline §1. The MASt team fondly dedicates this seminar… Read more
MASt – Fall Seminar 2021 (Friday, December 17): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1. Rachele Pierini opened the Fall session of the MASt seminars by welcoming the participants to the December meeting. In addition to the regular members of the MASt network, colleagues and students who have already attended previous… Read more
MASt – Summer Seminar 2022 (Friday, July 8): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1.1. Rachele Pierini opened the Summer session of the MASt seminars by presenting the different structure of the July event, which hosted the mentor(s) and mentee session. During… Read more
2009 rewritten 2024.02.11 | By Gregory Nagy [[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example,… Read more
2015.12.31 | By Gregory Nagy Horace’s imitations of Sappho in Ode 4.1 and of Pindar in Ode 4.2 show his deep understanding of archaic Greek lyric poetry. Particularly striking is his visualization of Icarus in Ode 4.2 as a negative model for such poetry. The artificial wings of Icarus are seen as a foil for the natural wings of the swan, the sacred bird of Apollo, who is god of… Read more
2024.01.11 | By Gregory Nagy rewritten from 2017.09.08 and 2017.09.14 §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, included in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), is about Anacreon and Ibycus, two ancient Greek masters of lyric poetry, and about their patron, Polycrates, who was—in his glory… Read more
MASt – Summer Seminar 2022: Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1.1. Rachele Pierini opened the Summer session of the MASt seminars by presenting the different structure of the July event, which hosted the mentor(s) and mentee session. During the meeting, graduate students presented their thesis along with their mentors. Specifically,… Read more
MASt – Spring Seminar 2022 (Friday, April 8): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1. Rachele Pierini opened the Spring session of the MASt seminars by welcoming the participants to the April meeting. In addition to the regular members of the MASt network as well as colleagues and students who have… Read more
§1. Rachele Pierini opened the Fall 2022 session of the MASt seminar by welcoming the participants to the November meeting. In addition to the steady members of the MASt network and colleagues and students who have already attended previous sessions, new guests joined the November 4 meeting. §2. As a… Read more