Gregory Nagy

Gregory Nagy is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979; 2nd ed. 1999). Other major publications include Homer the Preclassic (University of California Press, 2010; paperback edition, 2017) and The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Harvard University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2020).

Together with Stephen A. Mitchell, he co-edited the second edition (2000) of Albert Lord’s classic work The Singer of Tales (1960), contributing the new introduction. From 2000 to 2021, he served as Director of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., while continuing to teach weekly on Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since stepping down as Director in 2021, he has continued his career as Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Chair of the Department of the Classics at the same university.