MASt@CHS – Winter Seminar 2021 (Friday, February 5): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion
2021.03.15 | By Rachele Pierini and Tom Palaima Read more
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A purple ball: on Eros and Aphrodite, Art swifter than the wind: on athletes and contests, CI Poetry Project, Recomposing Heroes
The Charioteer: two poems by Agathi Dimitrouka
Translated by Natasha Bershadsky Hippolytus and Phaedra To Gregory Nagy narration Hippolytus, young, beautiful and modest, son of Theseus and some Amazon, was devoted to Artemis, scorning Aphrodite. The offended goddess of love inspired in Phaedra, his stepmother, a vehement passion for him: she used to go… Read more
Olympism, Culture, and Society: On Pindar’s poetic lessons about heroic Olympism in myths about Herakles
2021.03.12 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In our modern world—or, as some would think of it, in our postmodern world—we find it difficult to achieve any consensus about the meaning of the term “culture” as featured in the title of this essay. As for the term “society,” even experts in the social sciences cannot seem to agree on a unified definition. Nevertheless, most of us can at least sense, however… Read more
Reading late: Anabasis, three poems by Ishion Hutchinson
The Wanderer Still clear from its very first shout, ‘Thalatta! Thalatta!’ is the clamour every wave brings, 10, 000 voices arched into one, shaking the mountain clouds down to mist, power they sing, spitting salt into flames, to outlast the memory of those who toiled with the mongoose and snake,… Read more
A working translation of Pindar Olympian 14
2021.03.08 | By Maša Ćulumović 1 Καφιϲίων ὑδάτων λαχοῖϲαι αἵτε ναίετε καλλίπωλον ἕδραν, ὦ λιπαρᾶϲ ἀοίδιμοι βαϲίλειαι Χάριτεϲ Ἐρχομενοῦ, παλαιγόνων Μινυᾶν ἐπίϲκοποι, 5 κλῦτ᾿, ἐπεὶ εὔχομαι· ϲὺν γὰρ ὑμῖν τά ‹τε› τερπνὰ καί τὰ γλυκέ᾿ ἄνεται… Read more
A sampling of comments on Pindar Olympian 14: highlighting Thalia as one of the three ‘Graces’
2021.03.06 | By Gregory Nagy §0. The Three ‘Graces’ or Khárites, personifications of kháris, a noun often translated in a generalizing way as ‘grace’, are reverently addressed in a victory ode of Pindar, Olympian 14, as presiding goddesses of the city of Orkhomenos in Boeotia, named Erkhomenós (feminine gender) in the local dialect (Ἐρχομενοῦ, line 3). A young man named Asōpikhos (line 17), a native son of this city, is… Read more