On January 20, 2014 Gregory Nagy gave a public talk at the Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies. Several members of our community attended the event, and one even made an informal recording of the lecture. We are so pleased to share this participant-generated resource with the community.
The text from this talk is now available here:
Nagy:_Was there a future for the Phaeacians of the Homeric Odyssey (PDF)
Gregory Nagy, “Was there a future for the Phaeacians of the Homeric Odyssey?”
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.
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For additional information about lectures and research by Gregory Nagy, visit the Center for Hellenic Studies online at chs.harvard.edu.