We were excited to welcome back Gregory Nagy of Harvard University, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC for an Open House. The title of the discussion is “Minoan-Mycenaean Scribal Legacy,” which took place on April 17 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, was live-streamed and recorded.
You may like to read the following to get ready for the event:
About writings and rewritings by scribes: an e-dialogue with Hana Navratilova
A Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy for converting rough copies into fair copies
Did the kings of Sparta commission texts to be written down by scribes?
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Mentioned during the discussion:
Robert Hillenbrand. 2000. Persian Painting: From the Mongols to the Qajars. London, New York.
Further Classical Inquiries posts in this series from Gregory Nagy relating to this topic:
- Did the kings of Sparta commission texts to be written down by scribes?
- I am a scribe who writes letters, and my writing gives me power: variations on a theme in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East
- Some missing links in my efforts to trace continuities as well as discontinuities in Minoan-Mycenaean scribal practices
- Echoes of a Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy in a story told by Herodotus
- A Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy for converting rough copies into fair copies
- Minoan and Mycenaean fig trees: some retrospective and prospective comments
- About writings and rewritings by scribes: an e-dialogue with Hana Navratilova
- About what kinds of things we may learn about mythology by reading about rituals recorded by bureaucratic scribes
- Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XVII, with placeholders that stem from a conversation with Tom Palaima, starting with this question: was Hēraklēs a Dorian?
Gregory Nagy
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). His latest work, Masterpieces of Metonymy, is now available online. 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. Professor Nagy has taught versions of this course to Harvard College undergraduates and Harvard Extension School students for over thirty-five years. Throughout his career Nagy has been a consistently strong advocate for the use of information technology in both teaching and research. He is currently writing articles for Classical Inquiries, including commentaries on Iliad.