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 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
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
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? 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
The Pronunciation of Classical Attic Zeta 2023.07.25 | By George A. Sheets Introduction This paper seeks to reopen consideration of a question that has been widely taken as settled: what was the normative pronunciation of classical Attic zeta? Most modern authorities claim that Attic <ζ>[1] in the fifth… 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
By Stan Burgess | 2023.05.17 1§1. An over-scaled winged warrior, far larger than life-size, carrying two spears and a Boeotian shield, darts from left to right above a ship under oars towards its bow. The warrior dwarfs the ship. He appears to have flown from a curvilinear black and white… Read more