Gregory Nagy
Professor Nagy is a renowned authority in the field of Homeric and related Greek studies. His numerous honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association for his book, The Best of the Achaeans (1979). In addition to this path-breaking work, he has published Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an Indo-European Process (1970), Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (1974), Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990), Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (1996), Homeric Questions (1996) Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music (2002), Homeric Responses (2004), and Homer's Text and Language (2004); he has as well edited or co-edited various volumes and written almost a hundred articles and reviews (see his CV for a full list). Professor Nagy has lectured widely in North America and Europe on a great range of topics, especially concentrated in Homeric and Archaic Greek questions. Some of his recent lecture texts are available on the CHS website here. He is a strong proponent of the use of technology in teaching, and in the teaching and use of student writing in the core curriculum.