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Gregory Nagy (in Hungarian: Nagy Gergely) (pronounced /nadj;/), born in Budapest Hungary in 1942 , is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey. Since 2000, he has been the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, a Harvard school in Washington DC. He is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, and continues to teach half-time at the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Chair of the Classics Department at Harvard University. He was Chair of Harvard's undergraduate Literature Concentration from 1989 to 1994. He served as the president of the American Philological Association in the academic year 1990-91.

Nagy and his wife, Olga Davidson, lecturer in Brandeis' Humanities Program and chair of the Ilex Foundation, served as co-masters of Currier House at Harvard from 1986 to 1990.

Nagy has two brothers in allied fields: Blaise Nagy is a professor of Classics, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA while Joseph F. Nagy is a professor of Celtic folklore and mythology at UCLA.

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Total Books: 31
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Archaic Period
Archaic Period [Greek Literature, Volume 2] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815336839
ISBN-10: 0815336837
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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The Best of the Achaeans  Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
The Best of the Achaeans Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Classical Period  Poetics of Drama
Classical Period Poetics of Drama [Greek Literature, Volume 3] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815336846
ISBN-10: 0815336845
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Classical Period  Rhetoric of Oratory and Other Prose Forms
Classical Period Rhetoric of Oratory and Other Prose Forms [Greek Literature, Volume 4] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815336853
ISBN-10: 0815336853
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780735105492
ISBN-10: 0735105499
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an IndoEuropean Process
Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an Indoeuropean Process [Loeb Classical Monograph] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674362260
ISBN-10: 0674362268
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Greek Literature in the Classical Period The Prose of Historiography and Oratory
Greek Literature in the Classical Period the Prose of Historiography and Oratory [Greek Literature, Volume 5] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815336860
ISBN-10: 0815336861
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Greek Mythology and Poetics
Greek Mythology and Poetics [Myth and Poetics] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780801419850
ISBN-10: 0801419859
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
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Homer the Classic
Homer the Classic [Hellenic Studies] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780674033269
ISBN-10: 0674033264
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Homer the Preclassic
Homer the Preclassic (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780520256927
ISBN-10: 0520256921
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Homeric Questions
Homeric Questions (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780292755611
ISBN-10: 0292755619
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Homeric Responses
Homeric Responses (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780292705531
ISBN-10: 0292705530
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Homer's Text And Language
Homer's Text and Language [Traditions] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780252029837
ISBN-10: 0252029836
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Masterpieces of Metonymy From Ancient Greek Times to Now
Masterpieces of Metonymy From Ancient Greek Times to Now [Hellenic Studies Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780674088320
ISBN-10: 0674088328
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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Pindar's Homer  The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past
Pindar's Homer the Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780801839320
ISBN-10: 0801839327
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
Poetry as Performance  Homer and Beyond
Poetry As Performance Homer and Beyond (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521551359
ISBN-10: 0521551358
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference, Substores
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Preliterate Period
Preliterate Period [Greek Literature, Volume 1] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815336822
ISBN-10: 0815336829
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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