The project that I’ve been working on at the Center for Hellenic Studies is entitled Equine Poetics and it is a study of elements of Greek literature’s treatment of horses and horsemanship that can be understood in light of inherited Indo-European artistic and intellectual phenomena. It investigates both inherited poetic… Read more
As I had previously announced in the WIP talk, my paper will discuss some theoretical and methodological aspects concerning my research, which consists of a historical re-construction of the craftsmanship metaphor’s successive transformations in the context of early Greek cosmologies. The book I am currently completing at the CHS is… Read more
In a previous essay (Debiasi 2003) I perused an epic fragment, preserved in POxy LIII 3698, containing hexameters of Argonautic subject, which I argued to be early, by providing some pieces of evidence for an attribution to the Corinthiaca of Eumelus of Corinth. POxy LIII 3698 presents both an external… Read more
The book I came to CHS to complete, “Graphic Art: Alphabetic Images in Ancient Greece,” examines mixed-media contexts in which the materiality of the Greek alphabet is significant. This study underscores how Greek poets and craftsmen alike sustained an intermedial dialogue from the 8th century BCE on, and elaborates the… Read more
As my title suggests, this is a postscript to my last post, after three scholars (Danielle Allen, Barbara Graziosi, Stephen Halliwell) left a reply. My own reply to them is attached to that post, so let me just thank them warmly and point out the following. Halliwell registers a protest:… Read more
