By Gregory Nagy

By Gregory Nagy, H24H

The Barley Cakes of Sosipolis and Eileithuia

2015.02.20 | By Gregory Nagy In what follows, I quote a passage in Pausanias that is relevant to my analysis in H24H 15§38 of the rituals connected with the worship of the goddess Eileithuia. In that analysis, I concentrate on the ritual offering of mazai ‘barley cakes’ that are kneaded in meli ‘honey’, as described by Pausanias 6.20.2. Read more

By Gregory Nagy, H24H

God-Hero Antagonism in the Hippolytus of Euripides

2015.02.14 | By Gregory Nagy In Hour 20 of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (H24H), I wrote about the hero as a mirror of men’s and women’s experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides with a focus on the key word telos, ‘end, ending, final moment; goal, completion, fulfillment; coming full circle, rounding out; successfully passing through an ordeal; initiation; ritual, rite’. Read more