2022.02.17| By Gregory R. Crane I note here something that I discovered recently that surprised me and that I hope to explore more fully in the near future: the Greek names Ἀχιλλεύς and Ὀδυσσεύς are, from a metrical point of view, exactly equivalent. They have the same number of syllables… Read more
2020.02.14, rewritten 2022.02.14 | By Gregory Nagy Inscribed, by the hand of Georges Dumézil, on the front page of a copy of his book, Apollon sonore, 1982. §0. This essay, posted in Classical Continuum and dated for Valentine’s Day 2022.02.14, is a rewriting of an essay posted in Classical… Read more
2022.02.07| By Gregory Nagy I§0. The lamented death of my friend Nicholas Justin Allen on 21 March 2020 has taken away from me the intellectual delight of debating with him viva voce, time and again, about matters of intense mutual interest. In particular, our amicable debates tended to center on… Read more
2022.01.31 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This standalone essay is an annotation for Pausanias 2.32.3–4, where our traveler makes comments on a hero cult of Phaedra, not only of Hippolytus, at Troizen. What Pausanias says in this passage is most relevant, I think, to what we read in the Hippolytus of… Read more
2022.01.24 | By Gregory Nagy Here in Classical Continuum, I restart what I had described as an ongoing project in a posting for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2020.08.07): https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/ongoing-comments-on-a-pausanias-reader-in-progress/. My description there, in the introduction to that post, is by now out of date. At the time of my writing that introduction,… Read more
Introduction to the series “Annotations about archaic Greek lyric” For English-speakers in the world of higher education, as of this writing, the introductory textbook most often assigned for the study of “archaic Greek lyric” (including elegiac and iambic poetry) has been Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric,… Read more
What follows is a draft (dated 2021.12.31) of 23 chapters taken from the forthcoming book, Aeolian Origins, and Other Mycenaean Matters, by Roger D. Woodard. [Chapter titles are linked in the Table of Contents on page 3.]… Read more
2021.12.27 | By Gregory Nagy §0. As an old teacher, I have often tried to encourage young colleagues who are launching their careers in teaching. I would be telling them stories about what could be described as “eureka moments” to be experienced in the process of teaching. But the Greek… Read more
2021.11.10 | By Natasha Bershadsky John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), Penelope at her loom (1864). Image via Wikimedia Commons. There are two girls, or young women, portrayed on John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s painting called Penelope. Both are barefoot; neither is cheerful. One, who is seated, is… Read more
10.31.21 | by Johanna Hanink Renderings of stills from a scene from Netflix’s 2020 miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor. §1. In a scene from Netflix’s 2020 miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor, Bly’s housekeeper Hannah Grose (T’Nia Miller) interviews an applicant, Owen Sharma (Rahul Kohli) for the position… Read more