Archive - Painful Signs, Or, Joel's Substack

An End to Painful Signs

A note on leaving Substack

Aug 1 •

Joel Christensen

July 2025

Laughing with Homer

Jul 25 •

Joel Christensen

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad

Part 3: Analysis, Neoanalysis, and the Set List

Jul 3 •

Joel Christensen

June 2025

Homeric Epic, Narrative Myth, and the Life of Stories

A Short Course from the Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y

Jun 29 •

Joel Christensen

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad

Part 2: Evidence for 'Episodes' from Literature and Art

Jun 27 •

Joel Christensen

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad

Part 1: Singers in Homer and the Panathenaic Rule

Jun 20 •

Joel Christensen

People-Eating Kings

Metaphors and Civil Strife in the Iliad

Jun 14 •

Joel Christensen

Hephaestus' Golden Girls

What Can the Iliad Tell us About Artificial Intelligence?

Jun 5 •

Joel Christensen

Agamemnon, STFU

Sociolinguistics and Homer

Jun 1 •

Joel Christensen

May 2025

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