Gregory Nagy

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Gregory Nagy


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
October 22, 1942


Gregory Nagy is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Bates Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey. ...more

Average rating: 4.27 · 541 ratings · 53 reviews · 53 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Ancient Greek Hero in 2...

4.20 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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The Best of the Achaeans: C...

4.27 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions
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Homeric Questions

4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Pindar's Homer: The Lyric P...

4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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Greek Mythology and Poetics

4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Poetry as Performance: Home...

4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Homeric Responses

4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER

3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Comparative Studies in Gree...

4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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Homer's Text and Language

4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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“We humans endure the gifts the gods give us, even when we are grieving over what has to be.”
Gregory Nagy, HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER

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