Short Writings: Volume IV
Gregory Nagy
Table of Contents
1. Achilles and Patroklos as models for the twinning of identity
2. Comments on Plutarch’s Essay On Isis and Osiris
3. Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey
4. Foreword to Nicole Loraux's Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens
5. Foreword to Nicole Loraux's Mothers in Mourning
6. Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians
7. Homer as Model for the Ancient Library: Metaphors of Corpus and Cosmos
8. Homeric Echoes in Posidippus
9. Hymnic Elements in Empedocles (B 35 DK = 201 Bollack)
10. The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus
11. Observations on Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE
12. Things said and not said in a ritual text: Iguvine Tables Ib 10–16 / VIb 48–53