Gregory Nagy

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Gregory Nagy ( Hungarian : Nagy Gergely, pronunciation: [ ˈnɒɟ ˈgɛrgɛj ]; born October 22, 1942 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-American classical philologist . He is a specialist in Homeric epics and archaic poetry and in particular has further developed the theories of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the oral improvisation of the Iliad and Odyssey in a lecture by a singer.

Life

Nagy received his BA in Classical Studies and Linguistics from Indiana University in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966 in Classical Philology. Since 1966 he has been a professor at Harvard University. In 1987 Nagy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 2000 he has been director of the Center for Hellenic Studies . He is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard and continues to teach part-time at Harvard . From 1994 to 2000 he held the Chair of Classical Studies at Harvard University. From 1990 to 1991 he was president of the American Philological Association .

His brothers are Blaise Nagy , Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the College of the Holy Cross and Joseph F. Nagy , Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at the Department of Celtic Languages ​​and Literatures at Harvard University.

Fonts (selection)

  • Greek dialects and the transformation of an indo-european process , Loeb classical monographs, Harvard UP 1970
  • Greek Mythology and Poetics , Harvard UP 1992
  • The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1979; 2nd edition 1999.
    • French translation: Le meilleur des Achéens: La fabrique du héros dans la poésie grecque archaïque. Trans. J. Carlier and N. Loraux . Editions du Seuil, Paris 1994.
  • Plato 's rhapsody and Homer's music. The poetics of the Panathenaic festival in Classical Athens . Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-674-00963-0 .
  • Homeric responses . Berkeley 2003, ISBN 0-292-70553-0 .
  • Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays , Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 2003
  • Homer the classic . Cambridge 2009, ISBN 0-674-03326-4 .
  • Homer the preclassic . Berkeley 2010, ISBN 0-520-25692-1 .
  • The ancient greek hero in 24 hours , Belknap Press, Harvard 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter N. (PDF; 283 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 30, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nagy, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest