Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame (on right), viewing the 4th Century BCE Bouleuterion at the site of the Panionia, near sunset. Photo by Alex Herda, with permission By Douglas Frame | 2023.05.08 In his Question No. 1 Leonard Muellner discusses the non-employment of ring composition and the non-application of… Read more
By Leonard Muellner | 2023.05.01 This essay, posted 2023.05.01 in Classical Continuum, is a “preprint” and pre-edited version of a text submitted to the Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey, edited by Joel P. Christensen, forthcoming. Telemachus with Athena as Mentor (1810). Drawing by John Flaxman. Image via Wikimedia… Read more
From a virtual tour created by Luke Hollis. Notes by Gregory Nagy 2023.04.28 The outside glimpsed from the window pictured here as the cover for my notes is the metropolis of Alexandria in today’s Egypt. The interior from which this exterior is viewed happens to be… Read more
This work investigates, based on a digital model and a solar analysis, the cultural and mythical dimensions of architectural elements, the iconography, site, and articulation of the Classical temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, where the earliest use of the Corinthian order is attested in the form of a single… Read more
This book, made available with the permission of Giampiero Scafoglio, focuses on the character of Ajax, an important hero in the Homeric Iliad and the so-called Epic Cycle. In the “Cyclic” Little Iliad, he is even the protagonist of an ethically dubious episode: the ‘judgment of arms’, with its tragic… Read more
2023.01.02 | By Gregory Nagy Epilogue §0. The book had started with Hippolytus the Charioteer and now ends with Achilles the Charioteer. By now we have seen the supreme prestige of charioteering as a primary form of athletics at the Olympics and at other Panhellenic festivals—most notably at the festival… Read more
Essay 5: Revisiting Plato’s Rhapsody 2022.2.06 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The text of this essay, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2020.06.26, is a pre-edited version of my contribution to an online colloquium, Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato, the collected essays for which reside in a special issue of Classics@;… Read more
Essay 4. Homeric problems and bibliographical challenges, Part II: More on the performances of rhapsodes at the festival of the Panathenaia 2022.1.30 | By Gregory Nagy 0. This essay, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.30, picks up from where I left off in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.22. Here again… Read more
Essay 3. Homeric problems and bibliographical challenges, Part I: On the performances of rhapsodes at the festival of the Panathenaia 2022.1.23 | By Gregory Nagy This essay was originally published in Classical Inquiries 2018.11.22. §0. No one who claims expertise in the study of Homer will ever have the… Read more
What is a “proverb”? What is a “sententia”? What is a “saying”? To many readers, the question may seem superfluous, and the answer rather obvious, if even one of the greatest scholars of proverbs, namely Archer Taylor, declared that “an incommunicable quality tells us this sentence is proverbial, and this one is not.” To all of us, in fact, proverbs, sententiae, sayings, and many more (maxims, apophthegms, aphorisms, and so… Read more