Contents:
Carson, A. 'Just for the Thrill: Sycophantizing Aristotle's Poetics.' Arion 1 (1990)
Clay, D. 'The Tragic and Comic Poet of the Symposium.' Arion 2 (1975)
Compton, T. 'The Trial of the Satirist: Poetic Vitae (Aesop, Archilochus, Homer) as Background for Plato's Apology.' American Journal of Philology 111 (1990)
Croix, G.E.M. de Ste. 'Aristotle on History and Poetry (Poetics 9, 1451a36-b11).' The Ancient Historian and His Materials: Essays in Honour of C.E.Stevens (Farnborough, 1975)
Demos, M. 'Stesichorus' Palinode in the Phaedrus.' Classical World 90 (1997)
Derrida, J. 'The Pharmacy of Plato.' Dissemination (Chicago, 1981)
Habinek, T. 'Singing, Speaking, Making, Writing: Classical Alternatives to Literature and Literary Studies.' Stanford Humanities Review 6 (1988)
Hardie, P. 1995. 'The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos.' Classical Quarterly 45:204-214.
Held, D.T.D. 'Why 'Individuals' Didn't Exist in Classical Antiquity.' New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 18 (1991)
Nehamas, A. 'Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic 10.' Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts (Totowa, NJ, 1982)
Nightingale, A. 'Writing/Reading a Sacred Text: A Literary Interpretation of Plato's Laws' Classical Philology 88 (1993)
North, H.F. 'Combing and Curling: Orator Summus Plato.' Illinois Classical Studies 16 (1991)
Nussbaum, M.C. 1972. 'Psukhê in Heraclitus.' Phronesis 17:1-16, 153-170.
Race, W. 1987. 'Pindaric Encomium and Isokrates' Evagoras.' Transactions of the American Philological Association 117:131-155
Segal, C.P. 1962. 'Gorgias and the Psychology of the Logos.' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 66:99-155
Silk, M.S. 'Language, Poetry and Enactment.' Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review 2 (1995)
List of Recommended Readings

Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.
This volume is available on its own or as part of the nine- volume set, "Greek Literature," For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for "Greek Literature" [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0].

Contents:
Bowerstock, G. 'Pseudo-Xenophon.' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 71 (1967)
Cartledge, P. 'The Silent Women of Thucydides 2.45.2. Re-Viewed.' Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald (Ann Arbor, 1993)
Connor, W.R. 'A Post-Modernist Thucydides.' Classical Journal 72 (1977)
Crane, G. 'Power, Prestige and the Corcyrean Affair in Thucydides I.' Classical Antiquity 12 (1992)
Dewald, C. 'Narrative Surface and Authorial Voice in Herotodus' Histories.' Arethusa 20 (1987)
Edmunds, L. 'Thucydides in the Act of Writing.' Tradizione e innovazione nella cultura greca (Rome, 1993)
Flory, S. 'Who reads Herodotus' Histories?' American Journal of Philology 101 (1980)
Hollman, A. 'Epos as Authoratative Speech in Herodotos' Histories.' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000)
Hornblower, S. 'Thucydides' use of Herodotus.' Philolakôn (London, 1992)
Kurke, L. 'Herodotus and the Language of Metals.' Helios 22 (1995)
Mackie, C.J. 'Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily.' Classical Quarterly 46 (1996)
Momigliano, A. 'The Historians of the Classical World and their Audiences.' Sesto Contributo (Rome, 1980)
Munson, R.V. 'Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences and the Story of Raphsinitus and the Thief in the Histories.' American Journal of Philology 114 (1993)
Redfield, J. 'Herodotus the Tourist.' Classical Philology 80 (1985)
Rusten, J.S. 'Structure, Style and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice.' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 90 (1986)
List of Recommended Readings
Part II
Beale, W.H. 'Rhetorical Performative Discourse: A New Theory of Epideictic.' Philosophy and Rhetoric 11 (1978)
Bers, V. 'Dikastic Thorubos.' Journal of Political Thought 6 (1985)
Dorjohn, A.P. 'On Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously.' Transactions of the American Philological Association 78 (1947)
Dué, C. 'Poetry and the Dêmos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession.' Stoa Consortium (2000)
Hansen, M.H. 'The Athenian 'Politicians', 403-322 B.C.' Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 24 (1983)
Kennedy, G.A. 'Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory.' Transactions of the American Philological Association 90 (1959)
Pearson, L. 'The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches.' Phoenix 29 (1975)
Slater, W.J. 'The Epiphany of Demosthenes.' Phoenix 42 (1988)
List of Recommended Readings

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].

This is part of a nine-volume collection of critical writings on Greek literature, from 6th century BC to the Byzantine era, which traces the Greek roots of all major literary genres: epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory, and philosophy.

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].

This collection examines major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, spanning from romantic to post-modern authors, poets, and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in nineteenth and twentieth century Greece. Major authors discussed included Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis, Seferis, and many others.

Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].

Contents:
Volume 1: 0-815-33682-9: The Oral Traditional Background of Ancient Greek Literature: 351pp
Volume 2: 0-815-33683-7: Homer and Hesiod as Prototypes of Greek Literature: 358pp
Volume 3: 0-815-33684-5: Greek Literature in the Archaic Period: The Emergence of Authorship: 350pp
Volume 4: 0-815-33685-3: Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Poetics of Drama in Athens: 438pp
Volume 5: 0-815-33686-1: Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory: 354pp
Volume 6: 0-815-33687-X: Greek Literature and Philosophy: 350pp:
Volume 7: 0-815-33688-8: Greek Literature in the Hellenistic Period: 350pp
Volume 8: 0-415-93770-1: Greek Literature in the Roman period and in late Antiquity: 350pp
Volume 9: 0-415-93771-X: Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period: 350pp

What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy's Homer is to be twice civilized. "Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years." -Times Literary Supplement "Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes-mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself-form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the 'monolithic' Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus." -Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new questions about what could be known or conjectured about Greek heroes. In this revised edition, which features a new preface by the author, Gregory Nagy reconsiders his conclusions in the light of the subsequent debate and resumes his discussion of the special status of heroes in ancient Greek life and poetry. His book remains an engaging introduction both to the concept of the hero in Hellenic civilization and to the poetic forms through which the hero is defined: the Iliad and Odyssey in particular and archaic Greek poetry in general.

Praise for the first edition: "This is a learned, clever, and disturbing book... One is left with the uneasy feeling that curtains have parted in the wind, giving glimpses of unsuspected realities behind the apparently simple face of Greek heroic poetry." -- M. L. West, Times Literary Supplement

Gregory Nagy's book is brilliant, original, and filled with powerful, central, and useful insights. To read it with attention is to experience a radical revision of one's own view of early Greek poetry and of the primary themes of Greek culture." -- James Redfield, University of Chicago

The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes." The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes, the "staging" of Homer in classical Athens can once again become a virtual reality.

This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.

Highlighted among the works of Plato are the "Ion," the "Timaeus," and the "Critias." Some experts who study the "Timaeus" have suggested that Plato must have intended this masterpiece, described by his characters as a "humnos," to be a tribute to Athena. The metaphor of weaving, implicit in humnos and explicit in the peplos or robe that was offered to the goddess at the Panathenaia, applies also to Homeric poetry: it too was pictured as a "humnos," destined for eternal re-weaving on the festive occasion of Athena's eternally self-renewing birthday.

In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, then metonymy can be seen as a connecting of something familiar with something else that is already familiar. Applying this formulation, Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy as it comes to life in the verbal and the visual arts of Greek culture, as well as in the arts of other cultures. Though it is debatable whether all the selected examples really qualify as masterpieces, what they all have in common is their potential for artistic greatness. A close reading of the verbal and the visual evidence, Nagy argues, leads to a fuller appreciation of this greatness.

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

"Homer the Classic" is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The study of this reception is important for understanding not only the all-pervasive literary influence of ancient Greek epic traditions but also the various ways in which these traditions were used by individuals and states to promote their own cultural and political agenda. The aim of this book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry that we know as the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey, " is not to reassess the oral poetic heritage of Homeric poetry but to show how it became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later.

This volume is one of two books stemming from six Sather Classical Lectures given in the spring semester of 2002 at the University of California at Berkeley while the author was teaching there as the Sather Professor.

Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the "Iliad" in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007.

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems - in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined "epic space" of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.

The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike. This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological issues connected with the find. Using different approaches, the contributions demonstrate how the "New Sappho" can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

"Homer the Preclassic" considers the development of the Homeric poems - in particular "The Iliad" and "Odyssey" - during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival 'Homers' and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined 'epic space' of 'Troy' and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive.

Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions between the eighth and the fifth centuries B.C. Included in the volume are thirteen of Nagy's major essays-all extensively revised for book publication-on various aspects of the Hellenization of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritual, and social ideology. The primary aim of this book is to examine the Greek language as a reflection of society, with special attention to its function as a vehicle for transmitting mythology and poetics. Nagy's emphasis on the language of the Greeks, and on its comparison with the testimony of related Indo-European languages such as Latin, Indic, and Hittite, reflects his long-standing interest in Indo-European linguistics. The individual chapters examine the development of Hellenic poetics in the traditions of Homer and Hesiod; the Hellenization of Indo-European myths and rituals, including myths of the afterlife, rituals of fire, and symbols in the Greek lyric; and the Hellenization of Indo-European social ideology, with reference to such cultural institutions as the concept of the city-state. A path-breaking application of the principles of social anthropology, comparative mythology, historical linguistics, and oral poetry theory to the study of classics, Greek Mythology and Poetics will be an invaluable resource for classicists and other scholars of linguistics and literary theory.

." . . the latest in [Nagy's] series of brilliant and provocative works that open up new vistas in Homeric studies. . . . Informed and creative, wide-ranging and profound, this book stands at the cutting edge of Homeric scholarship and reminds readers why its author is one of the foremost classical scholars in the world today. -- Choice "Nagy performs a valuable service, in the current climate of Homeric studies, simply by reminding us once again, and forcefully, that the relationship between our written texts of Greek epic and their oral origins is a problematic one." -- Southern Humanities Review

The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission?

In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written texts that could be handed down over two millennia. His model draws on the comparative evidence provided by living oral epic traditions, in which each performance of a song often involves a recomposition of the narrative.

This evidence suggests that the written texts emerged from an evolutionary process in which composition, performance, and diffusion interacted to create the epics we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Sure to challenge orthodox views and provoke lively debate, Nagy's book will be essential reading forall students of oral traditions.