2021.01.13 | By Rachele Pierini and Tom Palaima §1. The Summer session of the MASt@CHS seminars represented a unicum within our series. Although we used the usual formula of the MASt@CHS seminars (two presentations, each followed by a deba … Read more
2021.08.09 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The cover illustration for this essay is a drawing, made in the early nineteenth century of our era, which copies with some clarity and flair a picture painted on a vase manufactured in Athens in the fi … Read more
2021.08.02 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The common thread, as it were, for this essay is the meaning of the epithet poikiló-thronos gracing the goddess Aphrodite in line 1 of Sappho’s Song 1. The persona of Sappho is addressing the goddess … Read more
2021.07.26 | By Gregory Nagy §0. Continuing the essay that started with Part One, I consider once again here in Part Two the first word in Song 1 of Sappho, where the goddess Aphrodite is invoked as poikiló-thronos, and I return once … Read more
Translated by Natasha Bershadsky Dioscuri The bodies, sturdy, in their sinewy nature, there is a symmetry. Their youth is a sacrifice to the goddess and the goddess recompensed it. If death were a recompense there woul … Read more
Translated by Natasha Bershadsky Hippolytus and Phaedra To Gregory Nagy narration Hippolytus, young, beautiful and modest, son of Theseus and … Read more
Bibliographical Abbreviations ABV = Beazley 1956 (Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters) BA = Nagy 1999a (The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry) DELG = Chantraine 2009 (Dictionnaire étymologique de la … Read more
2021.02.13 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In this brief essay, I consider again the beautiful sandals worn by the girl from Lesbos who is described in a song of Anacreon that I analyzed in my previous essay for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2021.02 … Read more
2021.02.06 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The comments I present here about the archaic poet Anacreon of Teos are meant as preliminaries to my preparing a compendium of my published essays on the topic of Sappho’s ancient reception. In e … Read more
Translated to Greek by George Chaldezos Students all too commonly misconstrue the poem in which Sappho calls that man equal to a god who, opposite you, leans in and whispers, etcetera, tending to assume it’s about … Read more
2021.01.09 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In a previous study, I used the term theo-eroticism as a way of describing a kind of sexuality that gets transformed into something sublime by way of blending eroticism with divinity. In line with ter … Read more
2020.12.18 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In this essay, I start by considering the word strouthoi, conventionally translated as ‘sparrows’, in Song 1 of Sappho. At line 10, these birds are seen at the moment when they take wing and fly of … Read more
