Greek Mythology and Poetics

Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage...

Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

In this extremely rich volume, the Harvard classicist G. Nagy examines various facets of the Hellenizaton of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritual, and social ideology.

Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia:

Gregory Nagy is the most influential—and controversial—American classicist of his generation. This volume, while incorporating his most important essays, promises in addition to offer a unified statement of Nagy's methods and approaches, the main intellectual foci which guide his work, as well as examples of the application of his methodologies to a wide range of materials and problems.