Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take
There are two forms of the Indo-European twin myth relevant to the story of Patroclus and Achilles in the Iliad.
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Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents Twinning in myth is a way to think about identity. As Douglas Frame shows…
The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents Published 2011 in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (ed. S.
Alcaeus in Sacred Space
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [The printed version of this article was published in Tradizione e innovazione nella cultura…
An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[First published in ΙΜΕΡΟΣ 5.1 (2005) 311-317.]] To refer to this essay, please cite…
Ancient Greek Elegy
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[This essay is an online version of an original printed version that appeared in…
Anthropological Approaches
[Final draft of an essay by the same title published by Oxford University Press in The Oxford Handbook of Greek…
Asopos and his multiple daughters: Traces of preclassical epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents This is an electronic version of Chapter 1 of Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric…
Athena among the Phaeacians
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC [This lecture was presented on April 29, 2015 at the Conference Room of the…
Chronological Table: Archaic Megara, 800-500 B.C.
[This article was originally published in 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press as an appendix to Theognis of Megara:…
Classics@9: Gregory Nagy, Diachrony and the Case of Aesop
Diachrony and the Case of Aesop Gregory Nagy [Also published in print in Diachrony: Diachronic Studies of Ancient Greek Literature and…
Comments on Plutarch’s Essay On Isis and Osiris
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [This “born digital” commentary has not yet appeared in print. This 6th edition is…
Convergences and divergences between god and hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [[This article was first published in 2008 in Archilochus and his Age II (ed.
Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [The printed version of this essay was published over 20 years ago in Classical…
The Delian Maidens and their Relevance to Choral Mimesis in Classical Drama
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [Originally published as Chapter 10 in Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, ed. R. Gagné…
Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung: Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik
Ordinarius für Griechische Philologie, Universität Basel 1. Was ist neu an der Neuen Sappho? Im Jahre 2002 konnte die Universität…
Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung: Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik
To refer to this work, please cite it as follows: Anton Bierl, “Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung:…
Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents 2017.06.10 [The online version of this presentation as published here on the website of…
Dialectal Differences at Knossos
[This text, “Woodard 1986,” was originally published as an article in Kadmos 25 (1986), 49–74. In this online version, the…
Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet? Symmetries of Myth and Ritual in Performing the Songs of Ancient Lesbos
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [Revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion…
Different ways of expressing the idea of historiā in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides
[This is an early draft of an article eventually published in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia, ed. Mary C. English and…
Diomède et la détresse de Nestor
[UFMG] [This article was originally published in Phaos, volume 4, pp. 5-38 (2004). In this online version, the original page-numbers…
The earliest phases in the reception of the Homeric Hymns
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents This is an electronic version of the printed version published 2011 in The Homeric…
Epic
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This essay is a 2010 online version of an original printed version that…
The Epic Hero
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents To refer to this work, please cite it this way: Nagy, G. 2006.
The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [Originally published 2007 in Classical World 100:151–157, 10.1353/clw.2007.0017. Second edition, published online 2015.] In…
Foreword to Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Selina Stewart. Cornell University Press, 2000.
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within…
Foreword to Mothers in Mourning, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Corinne Pache. Cornell University Press, 1998.
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within…
The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne…
Frank M. Snowden Jr. Annual Lecture Series – Home
To refer to this please cite it in this way : Rudolph Hock, Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Lectures, Howard…
Further Thoughts on Linear B po-re-na, po-re-si, and po-re-no-
1. Introduction §1. Opinions have varied and swayed regarding the interpretation of the Linear B term po-re-na. Whatever meaning is…
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Genre and Occasion
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This article was first published in 1994 in Mètis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs…
Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited—with special reference to the “newest Sappho”
[[A preliminary version, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2015.10.01, of a chapter published in 2019: Lyric Genre, ed. Leslie…
Gli horoi rupestri dell’attica
CHS/DAI Joint Fellow La vexata quaestio dei confini demici Un interessante ed alquanto nutrito dibattito si è svolto ed è…
Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education
[[The following text is adapted from a lecture given at the 9th Arthur and Mary Platsis Symposium, which was held…
The Greek Adjective Ἄσμενος: Its Etymology and History
Translated by Ioanna Papadopoulou [This article was originally published in French as “L’adjectif grec ἄσμενος : étymologie et histoire du…
Grieving Achilles
Brandeis University [This work was originally published in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry, eds. Franco Montanari,…
Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius
[[This article was originally published in 2012 in Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (edited by M. A. Harder, R.
Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [This essay was originally published in No Tapping around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor…
Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt
[This essay was originally published in Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian , ed. Ewen Bowie, 109–122. Trends in Classics 59. Berlin:…
Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[This essay is an online version of an original printed version that appeared in…
Homer and Greek Myth
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [The printed version is published in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed.
Homer as Model for The Ancient Library: Metaphors of Corpus and Cosmos
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents §1. This essay treats the ancient library not so much as a place or…
The Homer Multitext Project
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [This paper was originally published in Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to…
Homeric Echoes in Posidippus
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [Originally published in 2004 as chapter 5, pp. 57–64, of Labored in Papyrus…
Homeric Poetry and Problems of Multiformity: The ‘Panathenaic Bottleneck’
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [This article was originally published in Classical Philology 96(2):109–119 (2001).] In this on-line version,…
Hymnic Elements in Empedocles
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [A French-language version of this essay was printed in Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 24…
The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [This article was originally published as Chapter 14 of The Archaeology of Greece and…
The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents This essay treats the ancient library not so much as a place or institution…
L’áte dans l’Iliade (le cas Agamemnon)
Depto. de Letras Clássicas Faculdade de Letras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais [This article was originally published 1998/1999 in Classica…
L’échange des armures entre Diomède et GlaucosIliade VI, 232-236)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Brasil : Commentary on an enigmatic scene of book VI of the Iliad: the…
Language and Meter
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [This essay is an online second edition of an original printed version that appeared…
Le ranking du loisir : une parodie de l’arrogance productiviste (résumé d’un essai fictionnel)
Faculté de Lettres – UFMG [This text is a reduced, revised version of “O ranking do lazer,” which was originally…
Le mythe iliadique de Bellérophon
Université Fédérale de Minas Gérais, Belo Horizonte (Brésil) EHESS, Paris [This essay was originally published in Gaia : revue interdisciplinaire…
The Library of Pergamon as a Classical Model
[[Originally published as Nagy, G. 1998. “The Library of Pergamon as a Classical Model.” In Pergamon: Citadel of the Gods…
Lyric and Greek Myth
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents The printed version is published in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed.
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Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century
[This article was originally published in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry (eds. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and C.
The meaning of homoios (ὁμοῖος) in verse 27 of the Hesiodic Theogony and elsewhere
[Originally printed in Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (ed. Phillip Mitsis and Christos…
Nourriture(s) dans l’Odyssée: fruits, légumes et les oies de Pénélope
FALE-UFMG [This article was originally published 2009 in Nuntius antiquus, vol. 4, 162-180. The page-numbers of the printed version are…
Observations on Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [This text is the English-language version of a lecture I delivered 2011.04.06 on the…
On Dialectal Anomalies in Pylian Texts
This text, “Nagy 1968,” was originally published as an article in the Atti e memorie del 1o congresso internazionale di…
Oral Traditions, Written Texts, and Questions of Authorship
[Originally published in The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion, ed. Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis, 59-77.
Orality and Literacy
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [First published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532-538. In this…
Orality and Literacy (Persian translation)
Gregory Nagy Translated into Persian by Farnoosh Shamsian [[This article was first published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O.
The Origins of Greek Poetic Language: Review (part II) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [This online 2010 edition is a revised, expanded version of a review first published…
Performance and Text in Ancient Greece
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This essay is an expanded online version (2010) of an original printed version…
The Plot of Zeus
[This article first appeared in French as “L’intrigue de Zeus,” in Europe 79 (no. 865, May 2001), 120-158. In this…
Poetics of authorial, rhythmic, and gendered identities: The subject of discourse in Pindar’s Theban partheneion
École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre AnHiMA, Paris (translated by Sean Harrigan, Yale University) 1968: key-date in the…
Poetics of Fragmentation in the Athyr Poem of C. P. Cavafy
[Originally published in Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy (ed. Panagiotis Roilos) 265-272. Cambridge, MA 2010. The original…
Poetics of Repetition in Homer
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This article was originally published in 2004 in Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D.
A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [The online version of my essay as published here, dated 2015.09.08, matches a printed…
The Pygmies in the Cage: The Function of the Sublime in Longinus
[[This essay was originally published in Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment (eds. D. Heiland and L.
Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[Originally published in Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. R. B. Branham (Evanston IL 2002)…
Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [This essay was originally published in 2000 in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 64:7–28.
Recycling Laertes’ Shroud: More on Orphism & Original Sin
The Web of Penelope ἡ δὲ δόλον τόνδ’ ἄλλον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μερμήριξε· στησαμένη μέγαν ἱστὸν ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ὕφαινε,…
Review (part I) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [This review was first published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65.] West’s…
Review of Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008)
[This article is a draft of a review later published in Journal of Hellenic Studies 131 (2011) 166–169 (DOI:…
Review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen
Harvard University [This review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen (Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske…
A ritualized rethinking of what it meant to be ‘European’ for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age: evidence from the Heroikos of Philostratus
[[This essay was originally published in 2019 as chapter 12 of Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honour of James…
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A Sampling of Comments on the Iliad and Odyssey
Editors: Angelia Hanhardt and Keith DeStone Web producer: Noel Spencer Consultant for images: Jill Curry Robbins Jump to:…
A second look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents 2015.03.01 Introduction The original version of this article, Nagy 1994-1995, “A Mycenaean reflex in…
A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [[Originally printed 2011 in Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (ed.
The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents Originally published in J. K. Berenson Maclean and E. B. Aitken, eds., Flavius Philostratus,…
Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents Originally published in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry (ed. F.
The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor
Brandeis University [This essay was originally published in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 93 (1990), pp. 59–101. The original…
Snowden Lectures: Keith Bradley, The Bitter Chain of Slavery
‘The Bitter Chain of Slavery’: Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome Keith Bradley Towards the middle of the fifth century…
Snowden Lectures: Stanley Burstein, When Greek was an African Language
When Greek was an African Language Stanley Burstein Introduction I would like to thank the department of Classics and Eta…
Space in Xenophon of Ephesus: Love, Dreams, and Dissemination
Basel [This article was originally published in German as “Räume im Anderen und der griechische Liebesroman des Xenophon von Ephesos.
A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth
[[This paper, published here for the first time, is based on a report for a seminar directed by Gregory Nagy…
Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: I. Homer and Homeric Style
[This article was originally published in 1930 in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 41:73–148. The original page-numbers of the printed…
Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: II. The Homeric Language as the Language of an Oral Poetry
[This article was originally published in 1932 in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 43:1-50. The original pagination of the printed…
The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents This essay was originally published in Dialogues 5 (2010) 29–45. In this on-line version,…
Theognidea and Megarian Society
[This article was originally published in 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press as Chapter 5 of Theognis of Megara:…
Theognis and Megara: A Poet’s Vision of his City
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[This article was originally published in 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press as…
Things said and not said in a ritual text: Iguvine Tables Ib 10-16 / VIb 48-53
Short Writings: IV. Table of Contents [A printed version of this article appears in Miscellanea Indogermanica: Festschrift für José Luis…
Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents This text was originally published as an article in Arion 3 (1994/5) 41–55. In…
Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[This essay was originally published in 2004 in Critical Inquiry 31:26–48. In this online…
Virgil’s verse invitus, regina … and its poetic antecedents
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [[This is an electronic version of an article originally published in More modoque: Die…
We Must Call the Classics before a Court of Shipwrecked Men
[[This essay was originally published in Classical World 104.4 (2011) 483–493.]] [1] ABSTRACT: What if…