Open Access Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies

I.  Books or Monographs:

Benveniste, Emile,
Indo-European Language and Society
Copyright 1973, University of Miami Press. Originally translated by Elizabeth Palmer, this online edition has been revised and updated by Jeremy Lin, Jacqueline Lewandowski, and Vergil Parson. Published here by permission of the University of Miami.
Bocchetti, Carla,
El espejo de las Musas: El arte de la descripción en la Ilíada y Odisea
Originally published in 2006 by the Centro de Estudios Griegos Bizantinos y Neohelénicos, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile. Published here by permission of the author under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Calame, Claude,
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece
Copyright 2001, Rowman & Littlefield. Also available for purchase in print here.
Detienne, Marcel,
Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece.
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 17, originally published in 2009 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. A print version is available for purchase here.
Dué, Casey,Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis .
Originally published in 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield as a part of the series "Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches." Copyright, Roman & Littlefield.

	Dué, Casey, Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (3.5 MB PDF download). PDF version of Hellenic Studies 35, published in 2009 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.

Dué, Casey, and Ebbott, Mary,
Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 39, published in print in 2010 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The print version is available for purchase here.
Ebbott, Mary,
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature.
Originally published in 2003 by Lexington Books as a part of the series “Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches.” Copyright, Lexington Books. Also available for purchase in print here.

	Frame, Douglas, Hippota Nestor. Online edition of Hellenic Studies 37, originally published in 2009 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here. Learn more

Frame, Douglas,
The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic.
Originally published in 1978 by Yale University Press. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, editor,
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism .
Originally published in 2006 by Ashgate Press. Copyright, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson this online edition appears by permission of the editor. Also available for purchase in print here.
Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald,
The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 13, originally published in 2006 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.
Levaniouk, Olga,
Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19.
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 46, originally published in 2011 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.
Martin, Richard P.
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad.
Originally published in 1989 by Cornell University Press. Copyright, Richard Martin.
Nagy, Gregory,Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work .
This 2008 "born digital" publication is an annotated second edition of Greek: A Survey of Recent Work, by Fred W. Householder and Gregory Nagy, originally published in 1972 by Mouton, The Hague. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Nagy, Gregory,Greek Mythology and Poetics .
Originally published in 1990 by Cornell University Press. Copyright, Cornell University Press. Also available for purchase in print here.

	Nagy, Gregory, Homer the Classic. This 2008 "born digital" text is an online edition of a 2009 work published by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The 2009 print edition is available for purchase here.

Nagy, Gregory,
Homer the Preclassic.
This 2009 "born digital" text is published by permission of University of California Press. Copyright, University of California Press. A print edition is available for purchase here.
Nagy, Gregory,Homeric Questions .
Originally published in 1996 by the University of Texas Press. Copyright, University of Texas Press. Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory,
Homeric Responses.
Published in 2003 by the University of Texas Press. Copyright, University of Texas Press. Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory,Homer's Text and Language.
Published in 2004 by the University of Illinois Press. Copyright, University of Illinois Press. Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory,Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens .
Originally published in 2002 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory,Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond.
Originally published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press. Copyright, Cambridge University Press. Also available for purchase in print here.
Olson, Ryan S.,Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus.
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 42, originally published in 2010 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.
Parry, Milman, L'Épithète Traditionnelle dans Homère : Essai sur un problème de style Homérique.
Originally published in 1928, both for Société d’éditions "Les belles lettres" (Paris) and as a minor thesis (Doctorat es lettres) for the Université de Paris. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Peradotto, John,Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey (3.7 MB PDF download).
Originally published in 1990 by Princeton University as part of Martin Classical Lectures delivered at Oberlin College. Copyright, Trustees of Oberlin College.

	Petropoulos, J.C.B., Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince. Originally published in 2011 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here.

Roth, Catharine P.,
"Mixed Aorists" in Homeric Greek .
Online version of a 1990 volume in the series Harvard Dissertations in Classics, by Garland Press. Copyright, Catharine P. Roth. Published here online with permission of the author.
Rouvelas, Marilyn,A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America (32.2MB PDF download).
Second Edition, by Marilyn Rouvelas, Bethesda, MD: Mea Attiki Press, 2003. Copyright, Marilyn Rouvelas. Published here by permission of the author.
Soliman, Sameh Farouk,
ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΑΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΥΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΥΣ ΑΙΩΝΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΑΒΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (Ζ΄& Η΄). (In Greek)
Online edition of a 2007 dissertation submitted to the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Copyright, Sameh Farouk Soliman. Published here by permission of the author.
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	Tell, Håkan, Plato's Counterfeit Sophists. Online edition of Hellenic Studies 44, originally published in 2011 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print here. Learn more

Walker, Cheryl,Hostages in Republican Rome .
A doctoral thesis written for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published here online in 2005 under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Wesselmann, Katharina,
Mythical Structures in Herodotus' Histories.
Abridged translation of Mythische Erzählstrukturen in Herodots "Historien", published in 2011 by De Gruyter. The German text is available for purchase in print here.The translation is published here by permission of the author. Copyright, Katharina Wesselmann.

II. Articles, Essays, and Lectures

Bierl, Anton, "Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung. Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik."
2009 online first edition published under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Bierl, Anton,"'Ich aber (sage), das Schönste ist, was einer Liebt': Eine pragmatische Deutung von Sappho Fr. 16 LP/V."
2009 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n.s. 74.2 (103), 2003, 91-124. Copyright, Fabrizio Serra editore.
Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III, "Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin."
2008 online first edition published under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Frank M. Snowden Jr., Lectures at Howard University

1. I. Hock, Rudolph. 2005. Introduction.
2. II. Bradley, Keith. 2005. 'The Bitter Chain of Slavery': Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome.
3. III. Burstein, Stanley. 2006. When Greek was an African Language.

Marwede, David, "A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth."
Published here for the first time under a Creative Commons License 3.0.  Based on a report for a seminar directed by Gregory Nagy and held at the Johns Hopkins University in the fall semester of 1973.
Nagy, Gregory,
"The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction."
Expanded online edition of an article originally published in 2011 in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (ed. S. W. Jamison, H.C. Melchert, B. Vine) 133–179. Bremen: Ute Hempen Verlag. Copyright, Ute Hempen Verlag.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Ancient Greek Elegy."
Originally published in 2010 in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy by Oxford University Press. Copyright, Oxford University Press. Published here by permission of the editor. Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory, "An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia."
Originally published in ΙΜΕΡΟΣ 5.1 (2005) 311-317. Published here by permission of the author under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet?"
2009 revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch–rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen (ed. A. Bierl, R. Lämmle, K. Wesselmann; Basiliensia – MythosEikonPoiesis, vol. 1.1; Berlin / New York 2007) 211–269. Copyright, de Gruyter Saur.
Nagy, Gregory,
"'Dream of a Shade': Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes."
2012 online version of an article that originally appeared in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 97–118. Published here by permission of Harvard University Press. Copyright, Harvard University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Epic."
2010 online version of an essay that originally appeared as Chapter 1 of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed. R. Eldridge; Oxford 2009) 19-44. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
Nagy, Gregory, "The Epic Hero."
2006 online second edition of an article that orginially appeared in A Companion to Ancient Epic (ed. J. M. Foley; Malden and Oxford 2005) 71-89. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
Nagy, Gregory, "The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach."
2010 second expanded online edition of an article that originally appeared in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (ed. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster; Bielefeld 2009) 69-102. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions."
Originally published in The Brill Companion to Hesiod (ed. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and Ch. Tsagalis; Leiden 2009) 271–311. Copyright, Brill.
Nagy, Gregory, "Homer and Greek Myth."
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Copyright, Cambridge University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"The Homer Multitext Project."
Originally published in Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Proceedings of the Mellon Foundation Online Humanities Conference at the University of Virginia March 26-28, 2010 (ed. J. McGann with A. Stauffer, D. Wheeles, and M. Pickard; Rice University Press 2010) 87-112. Published here in its original form under a Creative Commons License 3.0. To view the conference website, which features papers available for download, click here. To purchase the Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come in print, click here.
Nagy, Gregory,
"The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture."
Originally published in Europa e Cultura, Seminário Internacional, Maio de 1998, by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon 2001) 275-281. Copyright, Gulbenkian Foundation.
Nagy, Gregory,
Introductions and Suggested Bibliographies.
From Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, 9 vols. Routledge, New York, 2001. Copyright, Routledge.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Lyric and Greek Myth."
2008 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52-82. Copyright, Cambridge University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"On Dialectal Anomalies in Pylian Texts."
2011 online edition of an article that originally appeared in the Atti e memorie del 1o congresso internazionale di micenologia, v. 2 (=Incunabula Graeca 25[2]; 1968), 663–679. Made available online under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Orality and Literacy."
Originally published in the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532–538. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Performance and Text in Ancient Greece."
2010 online expanded edition of an essay that originally appeared as Chapter 34 in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (ed. G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, and P. Vasunia; Oxford 2009) 417-431. Copyright, Oxford University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past."
Originally published in Bakhtin and the Classics (ed. R. B. Branham; Evanston, IL 2002) 71-96. Copyright, Northwestern University Press.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Review of M. L. West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)."
Originally published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65. Copyright, Institute for the Study of Man.
Nagy, Gregory,
"The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus."
Originally published in Flavius Philostratus, Heroikos (ed. J. K. Berenson Maclean and E. B. Aitken; Atlanta 2001) xv-xxxv. Copyright, Society for Biblical Literature.
Nagy, Gregory,
"The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording."
Originally published in Dialogues 5 (2010) 29–45. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Theognis and Megara: A Poet's Vision of his City."
In Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (ed. Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy; Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press 1985) 22-81. Copyright, Johns Hopkins University.
Nagy, Gregory,
"Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater."
Originally published in Arion 3 (1994/5) 41–55. Copyright, Trustees of Boston University.
Rousseau, Philippe,
"The Plot of Zeus."
Originally published as "L'intrigue de Zeus," in Europe 79 (no. 865, May 2001) 120-158, this online edition has been translated into English by Emily Schurr. Copyright, Europe/JSSP. For more from the publisher, visit www.europe-revue.net.
Woodard, Roger D.,
"Dialectal Differences at Knossos."
Originally published in Kadmos 25 (1986) 49–74, published online by permission of the author.

III. Primary Texts

Euripides, Medea
E. P. Coleridge's translation, revised by Roger Ceragioli and Gregory Nagy. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Homer, Odyssey
Samuel Butler's translation, revised by Timothy Power, Gregory Nagy, Soo-Young Kim, and Kelly McCray. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (PDF, 94KB), translation of poem by Gregory Nagy (see next item for illustrated version)
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Drawings by Glynnis Fawkes, translation by Gregory Nagy. Published at www.lulu.com (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-homeric-hymn-to-aphrodite/11391510)
Philostratus, On Heroes
Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, published by Society for Biblical Literature. Copyright, Society for Biblical Literature.
Derveni Papyrus,
Edited by K. Tsantsanoglou and G. Parássoglou, with a brief introduction by K. Tsantsanoglou. Copyright Casa Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, 2006; also available for purchase in print here.

If you have not done so already, we recommend that you review our Introduction to Online Publications.

The CHS website has other scholarly publications not listed here. See especially the numbers of the journal Classics@, which features dynamic issues on the Posidippus Papyrus, the new Sappho poem on old age, Technology and the Classics, the Epic Cycle, and the Homerizon Conference, with more on the way.

An on-line version  Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary is now available from the Center for Hellenic Studies. Hard copies may be purchased from Harvard University Press.