By Gregory Nagy The Plataea Elegy of Simonides and questions about the reception of his poetry in Athens Read more
By Gregory Nagy A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales Read more
By Gregory Nagy, A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Part I and Part II of Richard P. Martin’s Mythologizing Performance Read more
By Gregory Nagy An admiring editor’s musings about his foreword to a book by Richard P. Martin Read more
By Gregory Nagy How myths that connect the hero Philoctetes with the goddess Chryse are related to myths about a koúrē ‘girl’ named Chryseis in the Homeric Iliad Read more
By Gregory Nagy Sappho’s Aphrodite, the goddess Chryse, and a primal ordeal suffered by Philoctetes Read more
Glimpses of two different myths about two different visits by Philoctetes to the sacred island of the goddess Chryse Read more
By Gregory Nagy On Ingmar Bergman’s Queen of the Night in his film version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute Read more