By Gregory Nagy | 2023.08.19 This standalone essay, re-edited online in Classical Continuum, is Pamphlet #1 (2024) in a series of pamphlets printed by the non-profit publisher ΕΠΟΨ in partnership with The New Alexandria Foundation. §0. This essay is about reconstructing the dialects of the Greek language as they… 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
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