Gregory Nagy

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According to Wikipedia, 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 Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey.

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The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (1979) (440)
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past (1990) (285)
Poetry as performance : Homer and beyond (1996) (209)
Greek Mythology and Poetics (2019) (137)
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (1977) (107)
Homer the Preclassic (2012) (75)
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (2020) (65)
Theognis of Megara : poetry and the polis (1985) (60)
Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas (1973) (57)
Homer's text and language (2004) (50)
Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays (2001) (38)
Greek : a survey of recent work (1972) (38)
Early Greek views of poets and poetry (1990) (34)
Homer the Classic (2010) (32)
Poetry as performance (1996) (32)
Ancient Greek Elegy (2010) (30)
Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria (2004) (29)
The Epic Hero (2006) (29)
Pindar's Olympian 1 and the Aetiology of the Olympic Games (1986) (28)
Greek-like Elements in Linear A (1963) (24)
"Dream of a Shade": Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar's "Pythian 8" and Aeschylus' "Seven against Thebes" (2000) (22)
Poet and Tyrant: "Theognidea" 39-52, 1081-1082b (1983) (21)
The New Simonides (2005) (21)
Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (2002) (19)
Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions (2009) (19)
Genre and Occasion (1994) (18)
Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar (2011) (16)
On the Death of Actaeon (1973) (16)
Homeric Poetry and Problems of Multiformity: The "Panathenaic Bottleneck" (2001) (16)
Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an Indo-European Process (1971) (13)
Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet (2009) (13)
Lyric and Greek Myth (2007) (12)
Authorisation and Authorship in the Hesiodic Theogony (1992) (12)
The "Professional Muse" and Models of Prestige in Ancient Greece (1989) (12)
Copies and Models in Horace "Odes" 4.1 and 4.2 (1994) (9)
Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet? Symmetries of Myth and Ritual in Performing the Songs of Ancient Lesbos (2007) (9)
A Poetics of Sisterly Affect in the Brothers Song and in Other Songs of Sappho (2016) (9)
Indo-European Poetry and Myth ( Oxford 2007 ) (2014) (8)
Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past (2002) (8)
The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus (2001) (8)
On the Death of Sarpedon (1983) (8)
Six Studies of Sacral Vocabulary Relating to the Fireplace (1974) (8)
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now (2016) (7)
Homer Multitext Project (2010) (7)
The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction (2011) (7)
The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and "Folk-Etymology" (1994) (7)
Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry (2012) (6)
Homer and Greek Myth (2007) (6)
The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns (2011) (6)
The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical drama (2013) (6)
On the origins of the Greek hexameter: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives (1979) (6)
Oral traditions, written texts, and questions of authorship (2015) (6)
A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides (2011) (6)
Convergences and Divergences Between God and Hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros (2008) (5)
Alcaeus in Sacred Space (1993) (5)
Orality and Literacy (2001) (4)
Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance (2006) (4)
Language and Meter (2010) (4)
Marcel Detienne, L'invention de la mythologie (1982) (3)
Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the “Newest Sappho” (2019) (3)
Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean (2017) (3)
7. Ellipsis in Homer (1997) (2)
Performance and Text in Ancient Greece (2009) (2)
Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook (1991) (2)
Diachrony and the Case of Aesop (2011) (2)
Homeric Echoes in Posidippus (2004) (2)
Another look at kleos aphthiton (2016) (2)
The Oral Traditional Background of Ancient Greek Literature (2020) (2)
Greek Literature (1991) (2)
Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt (2018) (1)
Helen of Sparta and her very own Eidolon (2016) (1)
The idea of 'finders keepers' as a signature for two sea-empires (2015) (1)
Review of M. L. West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007). (2008) (1)
Ophthalmologische Beziehungen der Pelger – Huëtschen Kernanomalie der Blutkörperchen (1963) (1)
The sign of Protesilaos (1987) (1)
Book Review:Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual Walter Burkert (1982) (1)
Athletic Contests in Contexts of Epic and Other Related Archaic Texts (2021) (1)
On weaving and sewing as metaphors for ancient Greek verbal arts (2017) (1)
4. Ancient Greek Poetry, Prophecy, and Concepts of Theory (2020) (1)
Pindar's Homer is not "our" Homer (2015) (1)
The Origins of Greek Poetic Language (2010) (1)
The Oath of the Ephebes as a symbol of democracy—and of environmentalism (2018) (1)
A Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy for converting rough copies into fair copies (2020) (1)
Greek literature in the classical period : the prose of historiography and oratory (2014) (1)
Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry (2003) (1)
Lelantine War, Eretria and Chalkis, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod (2018) (1)
Released on parole (1998) (1)
Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity : Greek Literature (2014) (1)
On the Shaping of the Lyric Canon in Athens (2019) (1)
The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach (2009) (1)
Greek Literature in the Hellenistic Period (2002) (1)
Musings about a scene pictured by the Achilles Painter (2019) (0)
3. On the Origins of Dactylic Hexameter (1974) (0)
2. Internal Expansion (1974) (0)
Pre-Hellenistic Greek Poetry in its Social Contexts (2015) (0)
A brief note about the picturing of apples in the poetics of Sappho (2019) (0)
Cataclysm and Ecpyrosis, two symmetrical actions of Zeus as sky-god (2016) (0)
The Language of Hesiod in its Traditional Context, by G. P. Edwards (Publications of the Philological Society, 22). Oxford: Blackwell, 1971. Pp. vii + 248. (1976) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XVII, with placeholders that stem from a conversation with Tom Palaima, starting with this question: was Hēraklēs a Dorian? (2019) (0)
A preview of Mages and Ionians revisited (2018) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XI, Homeric marginalizations of Hēraklēs as an epic hero (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Sound Pattern of Ancient Greek Alan H. Sommerstein (1979) (0)
More on the love story of Phaedra and Hippolytus: comparing the references in Pausanias and Euripides (2018) (0)
Sacred Space as a frame for lyric occasions: The case of the Mnesiepes Inscription and other possible cases (2018) (0)
A TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MYTH OF HELEN (2017) (0)
Things noted during eight days of travel-study in Greece, 2016.06.10-18 (2016) (0)
Comments on Comparative Mythology 5, an Afterthought of Georges Dumézil About Trifunctionality and the Judgment of Paris (2020) (0)
About three fair-haired Egyptian queens (2015) (0)
Chapter I. Postgonsonantal/prevocalic *-i- in ie Grammatical Categories (1970) (0)
Cato's daughter Porcia has herself a really good cry (2015) (0)
HOUR 8. The Psychology of the Hero’s Sign in the Homeric Iliad (2019) (0)
9. The Distribution of Rig-Vedic śráναѕ: An Intensive Correlation of Phraseology with Meter (1974) (0)
HOUR 1. The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero (2019) (0)
9. Further Variations onaTheme of Homer (2019) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIII, with a focus on the role of Hēraklēs as kingmaker (2019) (0)
HOUR 14. Longing for a Hero: A Retrospective (2019) (0)
(R.) Lane Fox Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer. London and New York: Allen Lane, 2008. Pp. 517. £25. 9780713999808. (2011) (0)
HOUR 24. The Hero as Savior (2019) (0)
Aristotle's Poetics, translation and commentary in progress, Chapter 3 (2016) (0)
The Barley Cakes of Sosipolis and Eileithuia (2015) (0)
Chapter III. The Development of ' and * in Greek, and Their Distribution (1970) (0)
HOUR 21. The Hero’s Agony in the Bacchae of Euripides (2019) (0)
About what kinds of things we may learn about mythology by reading about rituals recorded by bureaucratic scribes (2019) (0)
8. Homeric Variations onaTheme of Empire (2019) (0)
Epilogue: The Hidden Meaning of κλέος ἄϕϑιτον and śráνα(ѕ) áκṣitαm (1974) (0)
Hymnic Elements in Empedocles ( B 35 DK = 201 Bollack) (2006) (0)
Foreword (1955) (0)
HOUR 18. Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death (2019) (0)
Thoughts about heroes, athletes, poetry (2018) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VI, A Mycenaean phase in the reception of myths about Hēraklēs (2019) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIX, a post-Mycenaean view of Hēraklēs as a performer of his Labors (2015) (0)
Checklist of Greek (G) and Indie (I) Metrical Terminology (1974) (0)
"The mother, so sad it is, of the very best": The lament of Thetis in Iliad 18 (2015) (0)
39. The documentation of Greek (2017) (0)
Foreword by Cedric H. Whitman (1974) (0)
HOUR 11. Blessed Are the Heroes: The Cult Hero in Homeric Poetry and Beyond (2019) (0)
Variations on a theological view of Zeus as god of the sky (2016) (0)
Chapter II. Reflexes Of Nominal *-(i)io-, *-(i)iä- in Lithuanian (1970) (0)
A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides (2018) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology III, Hēraklēs compared to a hero of the Mahābhārata (2019) (0)
A sampling of comments on Pindar Pythian 6 (2018) (0)
Greek literature in the archaic period : the emergence of authorship (2001) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XIV, with a focus on the role of Hēraklēs as a leader of fighting men (2019) (0)
A personal checklist of memorable wordings in Parts I and II of Richard P. Martin’s Mythologizing Performance (2019) (0)
Longinus and a theological view of Zeus as god of the sky (2016) (0)
HOUR 13. A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes (2019) (0)
On a new book by Richard P. Martin, draft of a Foreword written by an admiring editor (2017) (0)
Mages and Ionians (2017) (0)
On cases of wolfish rage experienced by Greek heroes (2019) (0)
Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey (2017) (0)
A placeholder for the hero Amphiaraos (2018) (0)
What Pausanias saw when he looked up at the pediments of the temple of Zeus in Olympia (2019) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XV, with a focus on Hēraklēs of Tiryns as military leader of the Mycenaean Empire (2019) (0)
A scenario for exchanges of comments on a planned monograph about the ancient reception of Sappho (2019) (0)
Jean Bollack in English, a preview of a foreword to The Art of Reading, Part VI (2016) (0)
Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined (2018) (0)
Agentia Verba Lycamben: On Not Hunting Down Lykambes”) attempts to complicate, as well as clarify, Horace’s famous claim to primacy in Epistles 1.19.19-34 regarding the transplanting (0)
A placeholder for the love story of Phaedra and Hippolytus: What’s love got to do with it? (2018) (0)
Comments on Comparative Mythology 3, About Trifunctionalism and the Judgment of Paris (2020) (0)
Comments on Comparative Mythology 6, Trifunctionality and the Goddess Hērā (2020) (0)
3. Homer and His Genealogy (2019) (0)
Trying to read the Will of Zeus (2016) (0)
Pausanias as novelist: a micro-sample (2018) (0)
Thinking Iranian, Rethinking Greek (2017) (0)
Introductory comments marking the occasion of an international conference on orality and literacy, University of Wrocław 2019.12.04–06 (2019) (0)
Comments on Comparative Mythology 4, a Dysfunctional Misunderstanding of Trifunctionality in Myths About the Judgment of Paris (2020) (0)
HOUR 12. The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice in Homeric Poetry and Beyond (2019) (0)
1. The Common Heritage of Greek and Indie Meter; A Survey (1974) (0)
A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 3: A dog’s craving for meat as a signal foretelling the death of Aesop (2019) (0)
Questions While Viewing Greek Myths and Rituals Through the Lens of Pausanias, IV: Is Athena, Viewed Theologically, a Person? (2020) (0)
Commentary on Daniels and Soltis (1988) (0)
Lord, A. B. (2011) (0)
2. Metrical convergences and divergences in early Greek poetry and songs (1992) (0)
The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great (2016) (0)
6. Variations onaTheme of Homer (2019) (0)
Sappho, once again this time (2017) (0)
A re-invocation of the Muse for the Homeric Iliad (2018) (0)
HOUR 2. Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song (2019) (0)
On Ingmar Bergman's Queen of the Night in his film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute (2017) (0)
A reader for travel-study in Greece (2018) (0)
About Greek alētheia ‘truth’: Marcel Detienne challenges Martin Heidegger (2018) (0)
Seven Greek tragedies, seven simple overviews (2018) (0)
HOUR 6. Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles (2019) (0)
5. The Wedding of Hektor and Andromache: Epic Contacts in Sappho 44LP (1974) (0)
Greek literature and philosophy (2001) (0)
Afterthoughts about Polycrates, Anacreon, and Ibycus (2017) (0)
Introduction to Homeric Poetry (2019) (0)
Song 44 of Sappho and the Role of Women in the Making of Epic (2015) (0)
Greek Lyric by David A. Campbell (review) (2018) (0)
"Patis-son", a new vegetable in Hungary. (1970) (0)
A sampling of comments on the Iliad and Odyssey (2018) (0)
Orality and Literacy. Unmarked and Marked Elements in Verbal Comunication (2015) (0)
What GN owes OMD (2018) (0)
Forward to "Mothers in Mourning" (1998) (0)
Minoan and Mycenaean fig trees: some retrospective and prospective comments (2019) (0)
A plane tree in Nafplio: decorating a reader for travel-study in Greece, March 2018 (2018) (0)
Steuermann of Dionysus (2017) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Foreword (2018) (0)
Book Review:Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche Walter Burkert (1982) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
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A Mycenaean reflex in Homer: Phoreuai: Phoreuai (1994) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Foreword (2018) (0)
A Sampling of Comments on Pindar Nemean 7 (2017) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VIII, Some rough patches along the way toward a prototyping of Hēraklēs (2019) (0)
Olympus as mountain and Olympia as venue for the Olympics: a question about the naming of these places (2019) (0)
Some jottings on the pronouncements of the Delphic Oracle (2016) (0)
HOUR 22. The Living Word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates (2019) (0)
A historical Cato caught in the vortex of an ancient biography (2015) (0)
Observations on the Sign-Grouping and Vocabulary of Linear A (1965) (0)
Sappho and Aesop, distinctions between diachronic and historical perspectives (2017) (0)
HOUR 5. When Mortals Become ‘Equal’ to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom (2019) (0)
Chapter IV. Marginalia to Benveniste's Origines (1970) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XII, Hēraklēs at his station in Mycenaean Tiryns (2019) (0)
Commentary on The Tales of Hoffmann (2017) (0)
The sad story of a priestess in love: a resacralizing of sex in Greek myth and ritual (2018) (0)
4. The Metrical Context of κλέος ἄϕϑιτον in Epic and Lyric (1974) (0)
Learning to sing, and a dead master of song (2018) (0)
Introduction to Tragedy (2019) (0)
Crates of Mallos (2011) (0)
Marcel Detienne , L'invention de la mythologie, Paris, Gallimard, 1981, 252 p. (1982) (0)
Looking through rose-colored glasses while sailing on a sacred journey (2015) (0)
Mages and Ionians revisited (2020) (0)
"Life of Homer" myths as evidence for the reception of Homer (2015) (0)
Epilegomena. A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making (2019) (0)
9. Comments on OF 22 (2011) (0)
Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena (2015) (0)
Virgil’s verse invitus, regina… and its poetic antecedents (2013) (0)
HOUR 17. Looking beyond the Cult Hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus (2019) (0)
HOUR 3. Achilles and the Poetics of Lament (2019) (0)
Picturing Homer as a cult hero (2016) (0)
Minna Skafte Jensen (2015) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology IV, Reconstructing Hēraklēs backward in time (2019) (0)
7. The Metrical Context of Rig-Vedic śráνα(ѕ) áκṣitαm and áκṣt śráναѕ (1974) (0)
A foreword to an essay by Charles de Lamberterie (2017) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology VII, Greek mythological models for prototyping Hēraklēs (2019) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology IX, Further rough patches for Hēraklēs (2019) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XVIII, a post-Mycenaean view of Hēraklēs as founder of the Olympics (2019) (0)
HOUR 23. The Living Word II: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo (2019) (0)
Song 44 of Sappho revisited: what is 'oral' about the text of this song? (2016) (0)
Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period : Greek Literature (2014) (0)
Damage by Septoria on lemon balm (2002) (0)
Blade Runner—replicants are good to think with, while thinking about ancient Greek heroes (2018) (0)
Just to look at all the shining bronze here, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven: Seeing bronze in the ancient Greek world (2016) (0)
Sappho and mythmaking in the context of an Aeolian-Ionian poetic Sprachbund (2016) (0)
Comments on the Pearl Fishers of Georges Bizet (2018) (0)
Sappho in the role of leader (2017) (0)
About re-learning ideas I once learned from Roman Jakobson (2017) (0)
The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere (2010) (0)
A variation on the idea of a gleam that blinded Homer (2016) (0)
Comments on the visit of Pausanias to Mycenae (2016) (0)
How to be a good Centaur (2019) (0)
Orality and Literacy Revisited (2020) (0)
Homo ludens at play with the songs of Sappho: Experiments in comparative reception theory, Part Five (2019) (0)
Classical variations on a story about an Egyptian queen in love (2015) (0)
Iphigeneia and Iphianassa (2017) (0)
I Am a Scribe Who Writes Letters, and My Writing Gives Me Power: Variations on a Theme in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (2020) (0)
Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology XVI, with a focus on Dorians led by kingly ‘sons’ of Hēraklēs the kingmaker (2019) (0)
On the paraphrase of Iliad 1.012–042 in Plato’s Republic 3.393d–394a (2016) (0)
HOUR 19. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution (2019) (0)
Echoes of a Minoan-Mycenaean scribal legacy in a story told by Herodotus (2020) (0)
A bathtub in Pylos (2017) (0)
Abbreviations of Editions (1974) (0)
David Lynch's Visualizations and Greek poetry, Part One: "James's song" and Song 31 of Sappho (2017) (0)
A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 1: A would-be Aesopic werewolf (2019) (0)
4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey (2019) (0)
HOUR 4. Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar (2019) (0)
Athens and Homer (2012) (0)
On Herakles as a model for the athlete Milo of Croton (2019) (0)
10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation (2019) (0)
8. An Inquiry into the Origins of Indie Trimeter (1974) (0)
A Brief Note about the New Edition (2019) (0)
The Fire Ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a Central Problem in the Study of Ritual Language (2007) (0)
God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil, with a Translation of Hesiod's Works and Days. Stephanie Nelson , David Grene (2000) (0)
For Nicole, from Greg... (2005) (0)
God-Hero Antagonism in the Hippolytus of Euripides (2015) (0)
Greek literature in the Byzantine period (2001) (0)
Revisiting the question of etymology and essence (2016) (0)
Different ways of saying historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides (2018) (0)
Nostalgic glimpses in search of the Three Musketeers of 10 rue Monsieur-le-Prince (2019) (0)
Appendix B. Dovetailing: Speculations on Mechanics and Origins (1974) (0)
Plant protection of lettuce grown in the field. (2000) (0)
Postwar French Thought on Antiquity (2000) (0)
A Cretan Odyssey, Part 2 (2015) (0)
On Ariadne, draft of a new Foreword to a 1970 work of Robert T. Teske on a latent divinity (2018) (0)
Draft of a declaration by the founding authors of A Homer commentary in progress (2017) (0)
Greek Literature and Philosophy : Greek Literature (2016) (0)
6 . Formula and Meter ; A Summary (1974) (0)
Review of "Writing Homer: A Study Based on Results from Modern Fieldwork" by Minna Skafte Jensen (2014) (0)
Artemis and a massacre at the Tree of Life (2018) (0)
A Roll of the Dice for Ajax (2015) (0)
A Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai (2015) (0)
A ritualised rethinking of what it meant to be “European” post-heroic age for ancient Greeks of the post-heroic age (2018) (0)

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