Online Publications

If you have not done so already, we recommend that you review our Introduction to Online Publications.

A further note to users of this site: As of November 13, 2007, the interface to books has been modified. The way to access the different components of a book is by clicking on a pop-up menu beneath the title of the book, not by means of the navigation bar along the left side of each page.

I.  Books or Monographs:

Dué, Casey. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
Originally published in 2002 by Roman & Littlefield as a part of the series "Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches." Copyright, Roman & Littlefield. Available for purchase in print here.

Ebbott, Mary. Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
Originally published in 2003 by Lexington Books as a part of the series “Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches.” Copyright, Lexington Books. Available for purchase in print here.

Frame, Douglas. The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
Originally published in 1978 by Yale University Press. Published here by CHS under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivative works License 3.0.

Nagy, Gregory. Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work
This 2008 "born digital" publication is an annotated second edition of Greek: A Survey of recent work, by Fred W. Householder and Gregory Nagy, originally published in 1972 by Mouton, The Hague. Published here by CHS under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

Nagy, Gregory. Greek Mythology and Poetics
Originally published in 1990 by Cornell University Press. Copyright Cornell University Press. Available for purchase in print here.

Nagy, Gregory. Homeric Questions
Originally published in 1996 by the University of Texas Press. Copyright, University of Texas Press. The original print version is still available for purchase from the University of Texas Press here.

Nagy, Gregory. Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
Originally published in 2002 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Published here by CHS under a Creative Commons Atrribution-Noncommerical-No derivative works License 3.0.

Nagy, Gregory. Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
Originally published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press. Copyright, Cambridge University Press. Available for purchase in print here.

Walker, Cheryl. Hostages in Republican Rome
A doctoral thesis written for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published here online in 2005 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

II. Articles, Essays, and Lectures

Bierl, Anton. "Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung. Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik"
2009 online first edition under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III. "Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin"
2008 online first edition under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

Frank M. Snowden Jr., Lectures at Howard University

1. I. Hock, Rudolph. 2005. Introduction.
2. II. Bradley, Keith. 2005. 'The Bitter Chain of Slavery': Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome.
3. III. Burstein, Stanley. 2006. When Greek was an African Language.

Nagy, Gregory. "An apobatic moment for Achilles as athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia."
Originally published in ΙΜΕΡΟΣ 5.1 (2005) 311-317.

Nagy, Gregory. "Did Sappho and Alcaeus ever meet?"
2009 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch–rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen (ed. A. Bierl, R. Lämmle, K. Wesselmann; Basiliensia – MythosEikonPoiesis, vol. 1.1. Berlin / New York 2007) 211–269.

Nagy, Gregory. "The Epic Hero"
2008 online second edition of an article that orginially appeared in A Companion to Ancient Epic (ed. J. M. Foley; Malden and Oxford 2005) 71-89. Published here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0

Nagy, Gregory. Introductions and suggested bibliographies
From Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, 9 vols. Routledge, New York, 2001. Copyright, Routledge.

Nagy, Gregory. "Homer and Greek Myth"
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Published here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

Nagy, Gregory. "Lyric and Greek Myth" 
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Published here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works License 3.0.

Nagy, Gregory. "The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture"
Originally published in Europa e Cultura, Seminário Internacional, Maio de 1998, by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon 2001) 275-281.

Nagy, Gregory. "Theognis and Megara: A Poet's Vision of his City"
Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy; Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press 1985) 22-81.

DP Site (Restricted access).

III. Primary Texts

Homer. Odyssey
Samuel Butler's translation, revised by Timothy Power, Gregory Nagy, Soo-Young Kim, and Kelly McCray. Published here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Philostratus. On Heroes
Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, published by Society for Biblical Literature. Copyright, Society for Biblical Literature.

Derveni Papyrus
Edited by K. Tsantsanoglous and G. Parássoglou, with a brief introduction by K. Tsantsanoglou. Copyright Casa Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, 2006; also available for purchase in print here.