Lectures and Events: Gregory Nagy at Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens, January 20, 2014

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy will give a public talk on January 20th, 7:00 pm, at the Archaiologiki Etaireia (Panepistimiou Street) in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies (https://cods.upatras.gr).
Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. In his publications, he has pioneered an approach to Greek literature that integrates diachronic and synchronic perspectives. His books include The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press), which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982; also Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), Homeric Responses (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), Homer’s Text and Language (University of Illinois Press 2004), Homer the Classic (Harvard University Press, online 2008, print 2009), and Homer the Preclassic (University of California Press 2010), and The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Harvard University Press, 2013). He co-edited with Stephen A. Mitchell the 40th anniversary second edition of Albert Lord’s The Singer of Tales (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature vol. 24; Harvard University Press, 2000), co-authoring with Mitchell the new Introduction, pp. vii-xxix.

For additional information about lectures and research by Gregory Nagy, visit the Center for Hellenic Studies online at chs.harvard.edu.

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