Francis Jones Professor
of Classical Greek Literature
and Professor of Comparative Literature
Widener 174, 617-495-1737
Boylston 228, 617-495-1941
Gregory Nagy served as the
elected President of the American Philological Association in the academic
year 1990-91.
His special research interests are archaic Greek literature and oral poetics, and he finds it rewarding to integrate these interests with information technology. He was Chair of Harvard's undergraduate Literature Concentration from 1989 to 1994, and of Harvard's Classics Department from 1994 to 2000. Currently he is Director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., while teaching half-time at Harvard's Cambridge campus.
Classics
263. Homer
Catalog Number: 8655
*Comparative
Literature 207. Theory and Methods in Comparative Oral Traditions: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7426
He is the author of: The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982.
Other publications include:
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (Harvard University Press, 1974)
Greek Mythology and Poetics (Cornell University Press, 1990; paperback 1992)
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990; paperback 1994)
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996).
He wrote the introductory chapter of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 1 (ed. G. Kennedy; Cambridge 1989; paperback 1993), pp. 1-77 ("Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry").
Articles include "The
Professional Muse and Models of Prestige in Ancient Greece," Cultural
Critique 12 (1989) 133-143 and "The Crisis of Performance,"
in The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (ed. J. Bender and
D.E. Wellbery; Stanford 1990) 43-59.
Department of Comparative Literature
Prof. Nagy's page at Comparative Literature