Online Books

Before perusing the publications below, we recommend you review our Introduction to Online Publications.  NOTE to users of this site: As of November 13, 2007, the interface to books has been modified. The way to access the different components of a book is by clicking on a popup menu beneath the title of the book, not by means of the navigation bar along the left side of each page.

I.  Books:

Cheryl Walker, Hostages in Republican Rome.
A doctoral thesis written for the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) published here for the first time.
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Douglas Frame, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
First published by Yale University Press in 1978 and out of print, here republished.
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Gregory Nagy, Homeric Questions
Published by the University of Texas Press in 1996, the print version is still available for
purchase there at a special price.
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Casey Dué, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
Published by Roman & Littlefield as a part of their series "Greek Studies: Interdiscipilinary Approaches" in 2002.  Available here for purchase.
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Gregory Nagy, "Theognis and Megara: A Poet's Vision of his City," Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. T. Figueira and G. Nagy) Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 22-81.
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Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics
Published by Cornell University Press as a part of their series, "Myth and Poetics," edited by Gregory Nagy in 1990.
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Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes, translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, published by Society for Biblical Literature  
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II. Essays and Lectures:

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Associate Professor, Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin
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Frank M. Snowden Jr., Lectures at Howard University:
Introduction by Rudolph Hock, the second lecture
in the series, by Keith Bradley, 'The Bitter Chain of Slavery':
Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome, and now the third lecture,
by Stanley Burstein, entitled 'When Greek was an African Language.'
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A more detailed version of Gregory Nagy's essay, "The Epic Hero,"
from A Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. J. M. Foley, Malden and
Oxford, 2005, is  published here for the first time.
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"The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture," by Gregory Nagy, was first published in Europa e Cultura, Seminário Internacional, Maio de 1998, by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.