New in Online Publications
Gregory Nagy is a renowned authority in the field of Homeric and related Greek studies and has written almost one hundred articles and reviews. In Short Writings, Volumes 1 and 2, we have collected together in digital form almost thirty of his most influential works. Many of these articles have been expanded or updated since their original publication. See below for contents and details. The links provided lead directly to the full text on the CHS website.
Short Writings, Volume 1
- “The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction.”
Expanded online edition of an article originally published in 2011 in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (ed. S. W. Jamison, H.C. Melchert, B. Vine) 133–179. Bremen: Ute Hempen Verlag. Copyright, Ute Hempen Verlag. - “‘Dream of a Shade’: Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes.”
2012 online version of an article that originally appeared in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 97–118. Published here by permission of Harvard University Press. Copyright, Harvard University Press. - “Epic.”
2010 online version of an essay that originally appeared as Chapter 1 of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed. R. Eldridge; Oxford 2009) 19-44. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
- “The Epic Hero.”
2006 online second edition of an article that orginially appeared in A Companion to Ancient Epic (ed. J. M. Foley; Malden and Oxford 2005) 71-89. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
- “The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach.”
2010 second expanded online edition of an article that originally appeared in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (ed. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster; Bielefeld 2009) 69-102. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0. - “Genre and Occasion.”
Online version of an article originally published in 1994 in Métis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens 9–10:11–25. Copyright, Centre Louis Gernet. - “Lyric and Greek Myth.”
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Copyright, Cambridge University Press. - “Homer and Greek Myth.”
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Copyright, Cambridge University Press. - Introductions and Suggested Bibliographies.
From Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, 9 vols. Routledge, New York, 2001. Copyright, Routledge. - “On Dialectal Anomalies in Pylian Texts.”
2011 online edition of an article that originally appeared in the Atti e memorie del 1o congresso internazionale di micenologia, v. 2 (=Incunabula Graeca 25[2]; 1968), 663–679. Made available online under a Creative Commons License 3.0. - “Performance and Text in Ancient Greece.”
2010 online expanded edition of an essay that originally appeared as Chapter 34 in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (ed. G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, and P. Vasunia; Oxford 2009) 417-431. Copyright, Oxford University Press. - “Poetics of Repetition in Homer.”
2012 online edition of an article that was originally published in 2004 as Chapter 7 of Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos) 139–148. Hellenic Studies 3. Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. - “Review (part I) of M. L. West’s Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007).”
Originally published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65. Copyright, Institute for the Study of Man. - “Review (part II) of M. L. West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007).”
Expanded and revised online edition of a review first published in Classical Review 60 (2010) 333–338.
- “Ancient Greek Elegy.”
Originally published in 2010 in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy by Oxford University Press. Copyright, Oxford University Press. Published here by permission of the editor. Also available for purchase in print here. - “An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia.”
Originally published in ΙΜΕΡΟΣ 5.1 (2005) 311-317. Published here by permission of the author under a Creative Commons License 3.0. - “Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions.”
Originally published in The Brill Companion to Hesiod (ed. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and Ch. Tsagalis; Leiden 2009) 271–311. Copyright, Brill. - “The Homer Multitext Project.”
Originally published in Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Proceedings of the Mellon Foundation Online Humanities Conference at the University of Virginia March 26-28, 2010 (ed. J. McGann with A. Stauffer, D. Wheeles, and M. Pickard; Rice University Press 2010) 87-112. Published here in its original form under a Creative Commons License 3.0. To view the conference website, which features papers available for download, click here. To purchase the Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come in print, click here. - “The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture.”
Originally published in Europa e Cultura, Seminário Internacional, Maio de 1998, by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon 2001) 275-281. Copyright, Gulbenkian Foundation. - “The Library of Pergamon as a Classics Model.”
Originally published in 1998 in Pergamon: Citadel of the Gods (ed. H. Koester) 185–232. Harvard Theological Studies 46. - “Orality and Literacy.”
Originally published in the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532–538. Copyright, Oxford University Press. - “Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past.”
Originally published in Bakhtin and the Classics (ed. R. B. Branham; Evanston, IL 2002) 71-96. Copyright, Northwestern University Press. - “The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus.”
Originally published in Flavius Philostratus, Heroikos (ed. J. K. Berenson Maclean and E. B. Aitken; Atlanta 2001) xv-xxxv. Copyright, Society for Biblical Literature. - “The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording.”
Originally published in Dialogues 5 (2010) 29–45. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0. - “Theognis and Megara: A Poet’s Vision of his City.”
In Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy; Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press 1985) 22-81. Copyright, Johns Hopkins University. - “Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater.”
Originally published in Arion 3 (1994/5) 41–55. Copyright, Trustees of Boston University. - “Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria.”
Originally published in Critical Inquiry 31 (2004) 26–48. Copyright, University of Chicago Press. - “Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet?”
2009 revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally 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; Berlin / New York 2007) 211–269. Copyright, de Gruyter Saur. - “The ‘New Sappho’ Reconsidered in the Light of the Athenian Reception of Sappho.”
This article was originally published March 11, 2011 in the online journal Classics@ Volume 4 (eds. Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner) by the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University. To access the original version, click here. The contents of Classics@ 4 can be purchased in print as Hellenic Studies Series 38 here.