Gregory Nagy

About the Author

Gregory Nagy is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Includes the names: ed Gregory Nagy, Prof Gregory Nagy, Prof Gregory Nagy, Professor Gregory Nagy, Professor Gregory Nagy

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Works by Gregory Nagy

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (2013) 131 copies, 3 reviews

Homeric Questions (1996) 74 copies

Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past (1990) 60 copies

Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990) 47 copies

Antiquities (Postwar French Thought) (2001) — Editor — 47 copies

Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (1996) 34 copies

Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (2002) 26 copies

Homeric Responses (2004) 24 copies

Homer the Preclassic (2012) 23 copies, 1 review

Homer the Classic (2010) 20 copies, 1 review

Theogonis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (1985) — Editor — 13 copies

Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (1974) 10 copies

Homer's Text and Language (2004) 9 copies

Greek dialects and the transformation of an Indo-European process (1970) 8 copies

Greek Literature (9 Volume Set) (2001) 5 copies

Greek literature (2001) 3 copies

Greek literature. Greek literature in the Byzantine period / Volume 9 (2001) 3 copies

Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2003) 2 copies

Greek literature. Volume 8, Greek literature in the Roman period and the late antiquity (2014) 2 copies

Greek literature. Volume 5, Greek literature in the classical period : the prose of historiography and oratory (2014) 2 copies

Greek literature. Volume 6, Greek literature and philosophy (2016) 2 copies

West's Teubner of Homer's Iliad 1 copy

The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization: A Sourcebook (1992) 1 copy

Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization 4 1 copy

Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization 3 1 copy

HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 1 copy

Introduction to "The Iliad" 1 copy

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry (Classical Continuum) (2024) 1 copy

La poésie en acte : Homère et autres chants 1 copy

Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization 2 1 copy

Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization 1 1 copy

Sourcebook I: Archaic Greek Literature 1 copy

Introduction to Greek Literature 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Singer of Tales (1960) — Editor, some editions — 420 copies, 4 reviews

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (2007) — Contributor — 85 copies

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (2010) — Contributor — 57 copies

A Companion to Ancient Epic (2005) — Contributor — 50 copies

Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches (1996) — Contributor — 42 copies, 1 review

The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (1995) — Contributor — 31 copies, 2 reviews

Myth and the Polis (1991) — Foreword — 29 copies, 1 review

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009) — Contributor — 28 copies

A new companion to Homer (1997) — Contributor — 26 copies

On Philology (1990) — Contributor — 19 copies

The Riddle of Nostradamus: A Critical Dialogue (1984) — Foreword, some editions — 16 copies

Brill's companion to Hesiod (2009) — Contributor — 13 copies

The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (2010) — Contributor — 12 copies

The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama (2007) — Contributor — 12 copies

Innovations of Antiquity (1992) — Contributor — 11 copies

Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature) (1999) — Contributor — 11 copies

Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings (2018) — Contributor, some editions — 10 copies

The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies, 1 review

Bakhtin and the Classics (2002) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies, 1 review

Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings (1994) — Foreword — 9 copies, 1 review

Philostratus's Heroikos: Religion And Cultural Identity In The Third Century C. E. (2004) — Contributor — 8 copies

Greek Ritual Poetics (2003) — Contributor — 7 copies

Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text (1997) — Contributor — 6 copies

TRACING ORPHEUS SOZ 10 (Sozomena) (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies

The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Hellenic Studies) (2010) — Contributor — 6 copies

Studies in diachronic, synchronic, and typological linguistics : festschrift for Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of his 65th birthday (1979) — Contributor — 6 copies

Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies

Apollo: Origins and Influence (1994) — Contributor — 6 copies

Historical philology Greek, Latin, and Romance (1992) — Contributor — 5 copies

Homeric Contexts Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies

Choral mediations in Greek tragedy (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies

Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (2009) — Contributor — 5 copies

Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (1987) — Contributor — 5 copies

Mír curad : studies in honor of Calvert Watkins (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies

Allusion, Authority, and Truth Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies

The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 5 ... Supplements) (English and… (2019) — Contributor — 3 copies

Arethusa (vol 20 no 1 and 2): Herodotus and the Invention of History (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies

Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies.) (1999) — Contributor — 3 copies

Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus (2020) — Contributor — 2 copies

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 77 (1973) — Contributor — 2 copies

Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World (2023) — Contributor — 2 copies

Arethusa 16.1&2: Semiotics and Classical Studies — Contributor — 2 copies

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 78 (1974) — Contributor — 2 copies

Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC (2011) — Contributor — 2 copies

Transactions of the American Philological Association. Volume 122 (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy

Epea pteroenta : Beiträge zur Homerforschung : Festschrift für Wolfgang Kullmann zum 75. Geburtstag (2002) — Contributor — 1 copy

Arethusa (vol 9 no 2): The New Archilochus — Contributor — 1 copy

Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean — Foreword — 1 copy

Arethusa (vol 15 no 1 and 2): American Classical Studies in Honor of J.-P. Vernant — Contributor — 1 copy

Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy

La langue poétique Indo-Européenne: actes du colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes (Indogermanische Gesellschaft/Society for Indo-European Studies),… (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy

Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 59) (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy

Arethusa (vol 13 no 2): Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Nagy, Gregory
Birthdate: 1942-10-22
Gender: male
Education: Harvard University (Ph.D|classical philology|1966)
Indiana University (BA|1962)
Occupations: classicist
professor
Organizations: Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1987)
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens (2011)
Onassis International Prize (2006)
Goodwin Award of Merit (1982)
Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science (2017)
Commander of the Order of Honor, Republic of Greece (2019)
Relationships: Davidson, Olga (spouse)
Nagy, Blaise (brother)
Nagy, Joseph F. (brother)
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Associated Place (for map): Budapest, Hungary

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Ancient Greek Hero course in Ancient History (January 2016)

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6 reviews

jsburbidge 184 reviews

Homer the Classic by Gregory Nagy

From one point of view this is a study in the transmission of the Iliad and the Odyssey through the periods between Pericles and Virgil; in another, it is a work of reception criticism, as the way in which "Homer" was received is the major influence on the preference between the narrower Koine text and the Homerus Auctus (both already in existence at the beginning of the period). Accordingly, this illuminates Virgil, Aristarchus, Callimachus, and Plato at least as much as it does Homer, and show more exhibits multiple facets of the general way in which the classical world read and responded to Homer.

This is complemented by Nagy's Homer the Preclassic, covering the period before the Panathenaic Homer. show less

½

Dec 1, 2017

jsburbidge 184 reviews

Homer the Preclassic by Gregory Nagy

Nagy covers both Homeric reception and transmission in the period prior to the Panathenaic / classical period (i.e. before "Homer" became an Athenian property). As this period ends with the time of the "Peisistratian rescension" (which Nagy would not accept as such, but which effectively corresponds to the establishment of the Koine Homer in an Athenian context) it involves a far more mutable text and claims for identity than the later period covered in Homer the Classic. In particular, Nagy show more argues for the impact of a pan-Hellenic, growing out of an Ionic, Homeric identity. Integral to the treatment is the use of ritual / cultic evidence (the relevance of which becomes greater the further back we are considering the function of the epic).

Both books are well worth reading. show less

½

Dec 1, 2017

mrsnickleby 52 reviews

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy