Name Gregory Nagy | ||
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada People also search for Nicole Loraux, Thomas Figueira, Fred Householder Books The Ancient Greek He, The Best of the Achaeans, Pindar's Homer, Homer the Preclassic, Poetry as performance | ||
Education Harvard University (1966) | ||
Harvardx for allston i discussion with harvard professor gregory nagy on greek heroes
Gregory Nagy (Hungarian: Nagy Gergely, [ˈnɒɟ ˈgɛrgɛj]; born Budapest, October 22, 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.
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- Harvardx for allston i discussion with harvard professor gregory nagy on greek heroes
- The Will of the Gods Faculty Insight with Greg Nagy
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The Will of the Gods: Faculty Insight with Greg Nagy
Education and career
Nagy received his A.B. from Indiana University in 1962 in classics and linguistics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966 in classical philology.
Since 1966, he has been a professor at Harvard University.
Since 2000, he has been the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, a Harvard-affiliated research institution 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.
MOOC offering
In 2013 Harvard offered his popular class, The Ancient Greek Hero, which thousands of Harvard students had taken over the last few decades, through edX as a massive open online course. To assist Professor Nagy, Harvard appealed to alumni to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers. About 10 former teaching fellows have also volunteered. The task of the volunteers is to focus online class discussion on the course material. The course had 27,000 students registered.
Personal life
Nagy and his wife, Olga Davidson, lecturer in Brandeis University's Humanities Program and chair of the Ilex Foundation, served as Faculty Deans (previously called co-masters) of Currier House at Harvard from 1986 to 1990.
Nagy has two brothers in allied fields: Blaise Nagy is a professor emeritus of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, while Joseph F. Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
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