A snapshot of Kevin McGrath taken in Maleas, Greece in June, 2023. This posting, originally dated October 15, 2023, is now re-posted. The re-dating is November 4, 2023, though the actual writing here is dated November 8. The writer of this re-posting is an old friend of… Read more
Iliad 18.599-602: The Simile of the Potter & the Wheel 2023.10.11 | by Stan Burgess §1 A modern potter would be somewhat baffled upon encountering an ancient Greek predecessor at work on the wheel. That the wheel oscillated noticeably as it turned would surely intimidate our time-traveling… Read more
An internationally renowned classical archaeologist and art historian, Gloria Ferrari was born in Bologna and received her Laurea in Lettere Classiche at Università degli Studi di Roma and her Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Cincinnati. She taught at Wilson College, Bryn Mawr College (where she was the Doreen… Read more
By Gregory Nagy | 2023.09.13 This standalone essay, re-edited online in Classical Continuum, is Pamphlet #7 (2024) in a series of pamphlets printed by the non-profit publisher ΕΠΟΨ in partnership with The New Alexandria Foundation. §0. My essay here (2023.09.13) is an updating of an earlier version… Read more
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
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
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
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
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
By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.20, rewritten 2024.04.21 This standalone essay, re-edited online in Classical Continuum, is Pamphlet #2 (2024) in a series of pamphlets printed by the non-profit publisher ΕΠΟΨ in partnership with The New Alexandria Foundation. Figure 1. Hittite graffito: warrior with horsetail crested helmet, found… Read more