A foreword to an essay by Charles de Lamberterie
2017.11.17 | By Gregory Nagy Presented here is a preliminary draft of a foreword to an English-language version of an essay by Charles de Lamberterie. Read more
Ioanna Papadopoulou
Penelope’s great web: the violent interruption
2016.03.10 | By Ioanna Papadopoulou In the absence of Odysseus Penelope’s fate becomes unstable. Her weaving and unweaving the famous web is emblematic of this instability. Being at the same time a married woman and a numphē (young girl at the age of mariage), and refusing to solve this aporia, she invests weaving with its full metaphorical potential: Penelope rules over the destiny of Ithaca by “analysing” her web each… Read more
Aristotle’s Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 1
2015.11.27 | By Gregory Nagy In the posting for 2015.10.15, “Homo ludens in the world of ancient Greek verbal art,” I translated and commented on some of the arguments made by Aristotle in Part 4 of his Poetics. In the posting here, I backtrack, translating and commenting on all of Part 1. My translation and commentary here are part of a larger project that will cover the text of the… Read more