PUBLICATIONS
G-R-E-G-0-R-Y N-A-G-Y
back Maureen N. McLane I first encountered “Gregory Nagy” as an orally-transmitted and recomposed meme, circulating widely at Harvard and beyond. As an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I would hear of this remarkable professor and his famous Core Course, “The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization”—also known,… Read more
Laura Slatkin, The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 16, originally published in 2011 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here. Read more
Women’s Lamentations and the Ethics of War
back Olga M. Davidson The two texts that I compare in this presentation are epics. One of them is Persian and the other one is Greek. The Persian epic is the Shāhnāma of Ferdowsi, composed in the 10th century CE. The Greek epic is the Homeric Iliad, compositionally shaped… Read more
New Light on the Homeric Question: The Phaeacians Unmasked
back Douglas Frame §1. If the Homeric Question is a matter of identifying the circumstances in which the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed on a monumental scale, that question, to the minds of most, has not yet been satisfactorily answered. In a book published in 2009 about the… Read more