Short Writings: Volume III 

Gregory Nagy

Table of Contents

1. Alcaeus in Sacred Space

2. Asopos and his multiple daughters: Traces of preclassical epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar

3. Convergences and divergences between god and hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros

4. Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2

5. The Delian Maidens and their Relevance to Choral Mimesis in Classical Drama

6. The earliest phases in the reception of the Homeric Hymns

7. The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language

8. Homeric Poetry and Problems of Multiformity: The 'Panathenaic Bottleneck'

9. Language and Meter

10. A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho

11. Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri

12. A second look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai

13. A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides

14. Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry

15. Virgil’s verse invitus, regina … and its poetic antecedents