2022.03.07 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In Classical Inquiries, 2021.04.010, I wrote an essay about a reference made by Pausanias 5.13.7 to a wooden statue of Aphrodite that had been carved into the living wood of a myrtle tree that was supposed to be so old as to date back… Read more
edited by Kelly Lambert, Gregory Nagy, and other contributors, especially Elizabeth Gipson and Aoki Lee Simmons Map of Greece keyed to the ten scrolls of Pausanias, Description of Greece §0. Introduction by Gregory Nagy 2018.03.05, updated 2022.02.28 The essays in this reader are designed… Read more
2022.02.21| By Gregory Nagy Part II (Nagy 2022.02.21) is a continuation from Part I (Nagy 2022.02.07) II§0. In Part I of this bipartite essay, I have highlighted an article by Nicholas J. Allen (2014; also his book, published in 2020) where he adds two more “functions” to the three… Read more
What follows is a Persian translation of Gregory Crane’s “Achilles and Odysseus, formulaic counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum”, available online at: https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/achilles-and-odysseus-formulaic-counterparts-of-tweedle-dee-and-tweedle-dum/. The translation is made available here courtesy of Farnoosh Shamsian. آخیلئوس و اُدوسئوس، همتایان الگومند دوقلوهای آلیس در سرزمین عجایب گرگوری کرین… Read more
2022.02.17| By Gregory R. Crane [Click here to view this article translated into Persian.] 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… 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