Gregory Nagy
Author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
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.
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Works by Gregory Nagy
Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (1863) 21 copies
Associated Works
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature) (1999) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies
Animal-shaped vessels from the ancient world : feasting with gods, heroes, and kings (2018) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies
Philostratus's Heroikos: Religion And Cultural Identity In The Third Century C. E. (2004) — Contributor — 7 copies
Studies in diachronic, synchronic, and typological linguistics : festschrift for Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of… (1979) — Contributor — 6 copies
Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (1987) — Contributor — 6 copies
Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies
Archaic and Classical Choral Song Performance, Politics and Dissemination (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies
Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text (1997) — Contributor — 6 copies
Tracing Orpheus studies of orphic fragments ; in honour of Alberto Bernabé (2011) — Contributor — 5 copies
Allusion, Authority, and Truth Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Historical philology : Greek, Latin, and Romance : papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi II (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (2009) — Contributor — 3 copies
Arethusa (vol 20 no 1 and 2): Herodotus and the Invention of History (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext Studies in Archaic… (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies
Arethusa (vol 16 no 1 and 2): Semiotics and Classical Studies — Contributor — 2 copies
Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue: Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies
Aegina contexts for choral lyric poetry ; myth, history, and identity in the fifth century BC ; [seminar series out of… (2011) — Contributor — 2 copies
Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient… — Foreword — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 15 no 1 and 2): American Classical Studies in Honor of J.-P. Vernant — Contributor — 1 copy
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
Arethusa (vol 13 no 2): Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture — Contributor — 1 copy
La langue poétique Indo-Européenne: actes du colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes… (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy
Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 59) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1942-10-22
- Gender
- male
- Birthplace
- Budapest, Hungary
- Education
- Harvard University (PhD|classical philology|1966)
- Occupations
- Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Comparative Literature (Harvard)
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Ancient Greek Hero course in Ancient History (January 2016)
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