First Drafts@Classics@

This section of the Classics@ site is devoted to new and developing scholarship. It allows for a “pre-publication”: a way for scholars at any stage of career to share their research even before it goes through a formal publication process. The purpose of pre-publication is twofold: one, to get new ideas and work available to the public in a timely way, and two, to have a forum for a wider range of feedback that will in turn aid in the formal peer review process. With that second purpose in mind, we hope to expand this section in the near future to include discussion boards for dialogue between authors and readers. In the meantime, feedback and submissions for First Drafts@Classics@ should be sent to the CHS Executive Editors: Casey Dué (casey@chs.harvard.edu) and Mary Ebbott (ebbott@chs.harvard.edu).

The First Drafts are listed in order of publication, with the most recent first.

Claudia Filos, "Perishable Fame and Steadfast Glory: ἔμπεδος and ἀσφαλής from Homer to Herodotus," November 16, 2009.

Alexander Loney, "Victims of the Gods’ Vengeance," excerpted from Homeric Tisis: Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the Odyssey (Ph. D. Dissertation, Duke University), September 28, 2009.

Pascale Brillet-Dubois, "Astyanax and the Athenian War Orphans. Challenging war Ideology in Euripides' Trojan Women," (Astyanax and Athenian War Orphans) August 12, 2009.

Stephen Quinlan, "Running from Olympia to the Isles of the Blessed. Sacrifice, Athleticism and Cosmology in a Panhellenic Cult," (Running from Olympia) August 12, 2009.

Alexis Pinchard, "Du hieros logos à la raison: vertus d'un détour par l'Inde" revised edition, October 27, 2009 (first edition published April 14, 2009).

David Mirhady, "Odyssey 18.130-42: The Poem's Programmic Passage?" April 3, 2009.

Guy Smoot. "The Mitoses of Achilles." February 1, 2008.

The initial publication of images of three Homeric Manuscripts from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is now online. Introduction by Christopher Blackwell, Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott, and Neel Smith. October 26, 2007.

Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott, "Oral Poetics and the Homeric Doloneia ."  July 11, 2007.

Yannick Durbec, "Callimaque Aitia Fr. 26 (Pfeiffer) et la tradition rhapsodique" (Callimaque). August 28, 2006.

Benjamin Woodring, "Trajectories of things: Spears, Arrows, and Agency in Ancient Greek Epic Poetry" (Trajectories of Things: Spears). August 28, 2006.

Sarah Shelton Hitch, King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Authority in the Iliad (736.53 Kb), Chapter 4. June 22, 2006.