Here is a link to the pdf of the text of my paper given in Paris in September 2010:
https://webspace.utexas.edu/palaimat/www/Palaima_Security_Insecurity_2012.pdf
Any and all comments welcome. Many thanks.
Category Archives: Articles
Palaima Tribute to Robert Laffineur the Rapinewiad fragment of early epic
Here is the amazing discovery of an early epic fragment painted on cloth that refers to a hero named Rapineus.
Palaima Article on kosmos in Mycenaean palatial culture
—“Kosmos in the Mycenaean Texts: The Response of Mycenaean ‘Scribes’ to the Culture of Kosmos,” M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur eds., Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textile in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 33, Leuven – Liège 2012) 697-703 + figures CLIX-CLX.
In this article I discuss the significance of the etymology of the word ‘kosmos’ and the importance of the principle of ‘order’ in Mycenaean palatial culture as understood in the organizational system worked out by the palatial centers and structures, in the aesthetics of the ‘order’ of palatial architecture, and in the texts of the Mycenaean scribes. The very process of recording information was an imposition of order. We discuss passages from Homer and Hesiod and make reference to Continue reading
Songs of Hard Travelers from Homer to Bob Dylan (and Dionysis Savvopoulos)
T. Palaima, “Songs of the ‘Hard Traveler’ from Odysseus to the Never-Ending Tourist,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 26/27 (2010/11) 189-206.
This article studies themes connected with traveling and existing away from home from the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer through the modern folk song tradition as performed and transformed by Bob Dylan, including songs by the Stanley Brothers, Charley Patton, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Stephen F. Foster, Martin Carthy and Dionysis Savvopoulos.
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Songs of the ‘Hard Traveler’ from Odysseus to the Never-Ending Tourist