2017.01.26 | By Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and Lanah Koelle Notes from a conversation at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki on January 20, 2017 Notes on a Conversation with Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and Lanah Koelle at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Click here for a PDF version of the handout distributed on January 20, 2017, which contains the ancient texts in both ancient and modern Greek and the modern… Read more
2015.12.18 | By Gregory Nagy The combined research of Nagy and Davidson on ancient “Life of Homer” and medieval “Life of Ferdowsi” narratives respectively has shown that the traditional “biographies” about these two poets, as transmitted by a vast variety of communities, can be studied as sources of historical information about the reception of Homer and Ferdowsi. Even though the stories about these poets’ lives are myths, the actual uses… Read more
2015.12.17 | By Olga Davidson A Multiform Reception of the Shahnama as reflected in the Bâysonghori Preface §1. In a previous study, I argued that the historicized narrative of the so-called Older Preface to the Shahnama of Ferdowsi is strikingly parallel to Ferdowsi’s own poeticized narrative concerning the genesis of the Book of Kings.[1] In the present study, I make a parallel argument with regard to the Bâysonghori Preface. This… Read more
