Open Access Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies

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.

Books or Monographs:

• Bakker, Egbert J., Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics.
• Beck, Deborah, Homeric Conversation.
• Benveniste, Emile, Indo-European Language and Society.
• Bers, Victor, GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens. 
• Bers, Victor, et al., eds., Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum
• Bierl, Anton, Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy.
• Bird, Graeme D., Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri. 
• Bocchetti, Carla, El espejo de las Musas: El arte de la descripción en la Ilíada y Odisea.
• Bonifazi, Anna, Homer's Versicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Word-Making.
• Calame, Claude, Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece.
• Cameron, Averil, Dialoguing in Late Antiquity. 
• Compton, Todd M., Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History.
• Davies, Malcolm, Theban Epics (1.5MB PDF download). 
• Detienne, Marcel, Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece.
• Dué, Casey, The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy.
• Dué, Casey, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis.
• Dué, Casey, Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad(3.5 MB PDF download). 
• Dué, Casey, and Ebbott, Mary, Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush.
• Ebbott, Mary, Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature.
• Fisher, Elizabeth A., Michael Psellos. On Symeon the Metaphrast and On the Miracle at Blachernae: Annotated Translations with Introductions.
• Frame, Douglas, Hippota Nestor.
• Frame, Douglas, The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic.
• Garcia, Lorenzo F., Jr., Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad.
• Hollmann, Alexander, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories.
• Jacob, Christian, The Web of Athenaeus.
• Jeffré, Friedrich Bernhard, Der Begriff Téxnh bei Plato.
• Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, editor, Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism.
• Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study.
• Levaniouk, Olga, Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19.
• Lord, Albert Bates, The Singer of Tales.
• Marks, J., Zeus in the Odyssey.
• Martin, Richard P. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad.
• Nagy, Gregory, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours.
• Nagy, Gregory, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry.
• Nagy, Gregory, Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work.
• Nagy, Gregory, Greek Mythology and Poetics.
• Nagy, Gregory, Homer the Classic.
• Nagy, Gregory, Homer the Preclassic.
• Nagy, Gregory, Homeric Questions.
• Nagy, Gregory, Homeric Responses.
• Nagy, Gregory, Homer's Text and Language.
• Nagy, Gregory, Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past.
• Nagy, Gregory, Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens.
• Nagy, Gregory, Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond.
• Nagy, Gregory, Short Writings, Volume 1.
• Nagy, Gregory, Short Writings, Volume 2.
• Olson, Ryan S., Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus.
• Parry, Milman, L'Épithète Traditionnelle dans Homère : Essai sur un problème de style Homérique.
• Parry, Milman, Les formules et la métrique d'Homère.
• Peradotto, John, Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey (3.7 MB PDF download).
• Petropoulos, J.C.B., Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince.
• Power, Timothy, The Culture of Kitharôidia.
• Roth, Catharine P., "Mixed Aorists" in Homeric Greek.
• Rouvelas, Marilyn, A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America (32.2MB PDF download).
• Sandridge, Norman B., Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus.
• Scholtz, Andrew, Concordia discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature.
• Slatkin, Laura, The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays.
• Soliman, Sameh Farouk, ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΑΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΥΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΥΣ ΑΙΩΝΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΑΒΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (Ζ & Η). (In Greek)
• Tell, Håkan, Plato's Counterfeit Sophists.
• Tzifopoulos, Yannis, 'Paradise' Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete.
• Walker, Cheryl, Hostages in Republican Rome.
• Walsh, Thomas R., Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems.
• Wareh, Tarik. The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers.
• Wesselmann, Katharina, Mythical Structures in Herodotus' Histories.
• West, William Custis, III, Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars.

Articles, Essays, and Lectures

• Bierl, Anton, "Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung. Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik." 
• Bierl, Anton, "'Ich aber (sage), das Schönste ist, was einer Liebt': Eine pragmatische Deutung von Sappho Fr. 16 LP/V."
• Bultrighini, Ilaria, "Gli horoi rupestri dell’attica."
• Connor, W. Robert, "Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education."
• Connor, W. Robert, "The Pygmies in the Cage: The Function of the Sublime in Longinus."
• Connor, W. Robert, "We Must Call the Classics before a Court of Shipwrecked Men."
• Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III, "Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin."
• Frame, Douglas, "Achilles and Patroclus as Indo-European Twins: Homer’s Take."
• Frank M. Snowden Jr., Lectures at Howard University:

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

• Hitch, Sarah, "Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius."
• Marwede, David, "A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth."
• Muellner, Leonard, "The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Comments on Plutarch's Essay On Isis and Osiris."
• Nagy, Gregory, "The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns."
• Nagy, Gregory, Foreword to Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens, by Nicole Loraux.
• Nagy, Gregory, Foreword to Mothers in Mourning, by Nicole Loraux.
• Nagy, Gregory, "Homer as Model for The Ancient Library: Metaphors of Corpus and Cosmos."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri."
• Nagy, Gregory, "A Second Look at the Poetics of Re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry."
• Nagy, Gregory, "Virgil’s verse invitus, regina… and its poetic antecedents." 
• Parry, Milman, "Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: I. Homer and Homeric Style."
• Parry, Milman, "Studies in the Epic Technique of Oral Verse-Making: II. The Homeric Language as the Language of an Oral Poetry."
• Rousseau, Philippe, "The Plot of Zeus."
• Woodard, Roger D., "Dialectal Differences at Knossos."

Primary Texts

• Aeschylus, Agamemnon
• Aeschylus, Eumenides
• Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
• Alcman, Partheneion
• The Derveni Papyrus
• The Epic Cycle
• Euripides, Bacchae
• Euripides, Hippolytus
• Euripides, Medea
• Hesiod, Theogony
• Hesiod, Works and Days
• Homer, Iliad
• Homer, Odyssey
• Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
• Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Philostratus, On Heroes
• Pindar, Pythian 8
• Plato, The Apology of Socrates
• Plato, Phaedo
• Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
• Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos
• Theognis of Megara