Gregory Nagy, Homer’s Text and Language
Published in 2004 by the University of Illinois Press. Copyright, University of Illinois Press. Also available for purchase in print here. Read more
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Homer’s Text and Language
As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy’s essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies,… Read more
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture. Read more
Gregory Nagy, Homer the Preclassic
This 2009 “born digital” text is published by permission of University of California Press. Copyright, University of California Press. A print edition is available for purchase here. Read more
Homer the Preclassic
Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems—in particular the Iliad and Odyssey—during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy’s insights conjure… Read more
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity
Originally published in 2006 by Ashgate Press. Copyright, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson this online edition appears by permission of the editor. Also available for purchase in print here. Read more
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism
Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other… Read more
Gregory Nagy, Homer the Classic
This 2008 “born digital” text is an online edition of a 2009 work published by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The 2009 print edition is available for purchase via Harvard University Press here. Read more
Review (part I) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)
[This review was first published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65.] West’s book is most useful for researchers in the Classics and in Indo-European studies. I have produced two different and mutually complementary reviews of it, one for Classicists and one for Indo-Europeanists, with the collegial permission of the book-review editors of Classical Review and Indo-European Studies Bulletin. In the present review for IESB, I concentrate on the usefulness… Read more