Gregory Nagy, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Gregory Nagy, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction to Homeric poetry

Part I. Hour 1. The Homeric Iliad and the glory of the unseasonal hero

Part I. Hour 2. Achilles as epic hero and the idea of total recall in song

Part I. Hour 3. Achilles and the poetics of lament

Part I. Hour 4. Achilles as lyric hero in the songs of Sappho and Pindar

Part I. Hour 5. When mortals become ‘equal’ to immortals: Death of a hero, death of a bridegroom

Part I. Hour 6. Patroklos as the other self of Achilles

Part I. Hour 7. The sign of the hero in visual and verbal art

Part I. Hour 8. The psychology of the hero’s sign in the Homeric Iliad

Part I. Hour 9. The return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey

Part I. Hour 10. The mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey

Part I. Hour 11. Blessed are the heroes: The cult hero in Homeric poetry and beyond

Part I. Hour 12. The cult hero as an exponent of justice in Homeric poetry and beyond

Part II. Hour 13. A crisis in reading the world of heroes

Part II. Hour 14. Longing for a hero: A retrospective

Part II. Hour 15. What the hero ‘means’

Part III. Introduction to Tragedy

Part III. Hour 16. Heroic aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Part III. Hour 17. Looking beyond the cult hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus

Part III. Hour 18. Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the power of the cult hero in death

Part III. Hour 19. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and heroic pollution

Part III. Hour 20. The hero as mirror of men’s and women’s experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides

Part III. Hour 21. The hero’s agony in the Bacchae of Euripides

Part IV. Hour 22. The living word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates

Part IV. Hour 23. The living word II: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo

Part V. Hour 24. The Hero as savior

Core Vocabulary of Key Greek Words

To cite this work:

Nagy, Gregory. 2013. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_NagyG.The_Ancient_Greek_Hero_in_24_Hours.2013.

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