Gregory Nagy
Gregory Nagy | |
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Born | Budapest,Hungary | October 22, 1942
Education | Indiana University(BA) Harvard University(PhD) |
Academic career | |
Discipline | Philology |
Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek literature |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Main interests | Homer |
Gregory Nagy(Hungarian:Nagy Gergely,pronounced[ˈnɒɟˈgɛrgɛj];born October 22, 1942, inBudapest)[1][2]is an American professor ofClassicsatHarvard University,specializing inHomerandarchaic Greekpoetry. Nagy is known for extendingMilman ParryandAlbert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of theIliadandOdyssey.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Nagy received his A.B. fromIndiana Universityin 1962 in classics and linguistics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966 in classicalphilology.
Since 1966, he has been a professor at Harvard University.
Since 2000, he has been the director of theCenter for Hellenic Studies,a Harvard-affiliated research institution inWashington, D.C.He is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor ofComparative literatureat Harvard, and continues to teach half-time at the Harvard campus inCambridge, Massachusetts.From 1994 to 2000, he served as Chair of the Classics Department at Harvard University. He was Chair of Harvard's undergraduate Literature Concentration from 1989 to 1994. He served as thepresident of the American Philological Associationin the academic year 1990-91.
From 2015 to 2021, he posted about his work on a frequent basis at his research blog,Classical Inquiries.[4]
Massive open online course
[edit]In 2013 Harvard offered his popular class, The Ancient Greek Hero, which thousands of Harvard students had taken over the last few decades, throughedXas amassive open online course.To assist Professor Nagy, Harvard appealed to alumni to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers. About 10 former teaching fellows have also volunteered. The task of the volunteers is to focus online class discussion on the course material. The course had 27,000 students registered.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Nagy and his wife, Olga Davidson, Research Fellow,Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations,Boston Universityand chair of the Ilex Foundation, served as Faculty Deans (previously called co-masters) ofCurrier Houseat Harvard from 1986 to 1990.
Nagy has two brothers in allied fields: Blaise Nagy is a professor emeritus of Classics at theCollege of the Holy CrossinWorcester, Massachusetts,while Joseph F. Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]As sole author
[edit]- Nagy, Gregory,Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an Indo-European Process(Harvard University Press, 1970)
- Nagy, Gregory,Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter(Harvard University Press, 1974)
- Nagy, Gregory,The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, Revised EditionArchived2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998; original publication, 1979)
- Nagy, Gregory,Greek Mythology and Poetics(Cornell University Press, 1990)
- Nagy, Gregory,Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic PastArchived2016-09-15 at theWayback Machine(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
- Nagy, Gregory,Poetry as performance. Homer and beyond.(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- Nagy, Gregory,Homeric Questions(University of Texas Press, 1996)
- Nagy, Gregory,Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens(Harvard University Press, 2002)
- Nagy, Gregory,Homeric Responses(University of Texas Press, 2003)
- Nagy, Gregory,Homer's Text And Language(University of Illinois Press, 2004)
- Nagy, Gregory,Homer the Classic(Harvard University Press, 2009)
- Nagy, Gregory,Homer: The Preclassic(University of California Press, 2010)
- Nagy, Gregory,The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours(Harvard University Press, 2013)
As editor or co-editor
[edit]- Victor Bersand Nagy, G. eds.,The Classics In East Europe: From the End of World War II to the Present(American Philological Association Pamphlet Series, 1996)
- Nicole Loraux, Nagy, G., and Slatkin, L., eds.,Postwar French Thought vol. 3, Antiquities(New Press, 2001)
- Nagy, Gregory ed. with very brief introductions to collections of reprinted articles,Greek Literature(Taylor and Francis, London, 2001; Routledge, 2002), 9 vols. Nagy did not ensure that permission was given for publication in all cases and refuses to accept responsibility for not having done so.
Articles
[edit]- Nagy, Gregory, "The Professional Muse and Models of Prestige in Ancient Greece",Cultural Critique12 (1989) 133–143
- Nagy, Gregory, "Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry", in:The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 1(ed. G. Kennedy; Cambridge 1989; paperback 1993) 1–77
- Nagy, Gregory, "The Crisis of Performance", in:The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice(ed. J. Bender and D.E. Wellbery; Stanford 1990) 43–59
- Nagy, Gregory, "Distortion diachronique dans l'art homérique: quelques précisions", in:Constructions du temps dans le monde ancien(ed. C. Darbo-Peschanski; Paris 2000) 417–426.
- Nagy, Gregory, "The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and 'Folk-Etymology.'" Illinois Classical Studies 19 (1994): 3–9.http:// jstor.org/stable/23065415.
References
[edit]- ^"CV: Gregory Nagy",gregorynagy.org
- ^""Profile: Professor Gregory Nagy"".Archived from the original on February 20, 2005.Retrieved2008-03-12.
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:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link),University of Vermont, President's Distinguished Lecture Series (archived 2005) - ^Greg Nagy and the oral tradition of Homeric poetry, an interview, a video and a performance (Digital Pioneers@Harvard, September 2014)Archived2014-09-03 at theWayback Machine
- ^"About Us".Classical Inquiries.RetrievedMarch 1,2024.
Gregory Nagy was a frequent contributor to Classical Inquiries from February 2015 to October 2021
- ^Pérez-Peña, Richard (March 25, 2013)."Harvard Asks Graduates to Donate Time to Free Online Humanities Class".The New York Times.RetrievedMarch 26,2013.
External links
[edit]- Nagy's website at the Harvard Department of the Classics
- An audio interviewwith Nagy on "New Books in Classics"
- An account of Nagy's pioneering new project "A Homer Commentary in Progress"
- A Homer Commentary in Progress- An evolving, collaborative commentary with Nagy among the commentators