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Orality and Literacy
[First published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532-538. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{532|533}” indicates where p. 532 of the printed version ends and p. 533 begins.] The concept of orality… Read more
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
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… 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… 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