Online Books

Before perusing the publications below, we recommend you review our Introduction to Online Publications. NOTE to users of this site: As of November 13, 2007, the interface to books has been modified. The way to access the different components of a book is by clicking on a popup menu beneath the title of the book, not by means of the navigation bar along the left side of each page.

I.  Books:

Cheryl Walker, Hostages in Republican Rome
A doctoral thesis written for the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) published here for the first time.

Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
First published by Yale University Press in 1978 and out of print, here republished.


Gregory Nagy, Homeric Questions (link will take you to the Stoa Consortium website)
Published by the University of Texas Press in 1996, the print version is still available for
purchase there at a special price.


Casey Dué, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
Published by Roman & Littlefield as a part of their series "Greek Studies: Interdiscipilinary Approaches" in 2002.  Available here for purchase.


Gregory Nagy, "Theognis and Megara: A Poet's Vision of his City," Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. T. Figueira and G. Nagy) Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 22-81.

Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics
Published by Cornell University Press as a part of their series, "Myth and Poetics," edited by Gregory Nagy in 1990.

Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes , translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, published by Society for Biblical Literature  


II. Essays and Lectures:

Gregory Nagy's essay, "The Epic Hero,"  from A Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. J. M. Foley, Malden and Oxford, 2005.

Gregory Nagy, Professor of Classics at Harvard University, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, "Did Sappho and Alcaeus Meet?" An electronic version of an article that appeared in Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch–rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen (ed. A. Bierl, R. Lämmle, K. Wesselmann; Basiliensia – MythosEikonPoiesis, vol. 1.1) 211–269. Berlin / New York
Not yet available -- coming soon

Anton Bierl, Professor of Classics at the University of Basel
“Ich aber (sage), das Schönste ist, was einer liebt!”
Not yet available -- coming soon

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Associate Professor, Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College  Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin

Frank M. Snowden Jr., Lectures at Howard University :
Introduction by Rudolph Hock, the second lecture
in the series, by Keith Bradley, 'The Bitter Chain of Slavery':
Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome, and now the third lecture,
by Stanley Burstein, entitled 'When Greek was an African Language.'

"The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture," by Gregory Nagy, was first published in Europa e Cultura, Seminário Internacional, Maio de 1998, by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

III. Teaching Resources

Samuel Butler's translation of the Homeric Iliad, updated and with epithets restored. Click here to begin download.

Samulel Butler's translation of the Homeric Odyssey, updated and with epithets restored. Click here to begin download of a MS Word file or here to download a PDF.

Gregory Nagy's revision of W.H.M. Jones' translation of selections from Pausanias' Periegesis. Click here to begin download.