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poet as cult hero

By Gregory Nagy

About Poets as Cult Heroes in Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry

By Gregory Nagy

Archilochus, poet and cult hero

By Gregory Nagy

On the idea of dead poets as imagined by T. S. Eliot, compared with ideas about reperformance, Part III

By Gregory Nagy

Picturing Archilochus as a cult hero

By Gregory Nagy

Picturing Homer as a cult hero

Additional Reading

Pausanias 9.23.2–4, on the tomb of Pindar

2 May 2022

Language and Meter

By Gregory Nagy 19 November 2024

Comments on the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, by Gregory Nagy, restarted 2022

Homer commentary 1 December 2022

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