Open Access Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies

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The CHS website has other research publications not listed here:

• Classics@ Online Journal features dynamic issues, each dedicated to a particular topic, often with guest editors, which provide an in-depth exploration of salient issues in the field of Classics.
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• The CHS Research Bulletin⬀ is an e-journal dedicated to sharing the work of current fellows at the CHS. The Bulletin contains the fellows’ symposium papers and videos of their presentations.

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Books or Monographs:

Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, and Manuel Baumbach, eds. Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309).
Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw. ὁπάων and ὁπάζω: A Study in the Epic Treatment of Heroic Relationships.
Alexiou, Margaret, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition.
Bakker, Egbert J., Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics.
Bazzaz, Sahar, Yota Batsaki, and Dimiter Angelov, eds., Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space.
Beck, Deborah, Homeric Conversation.
Benveniste, Emile, Indo-European Language and Society.
Bergren, Ann, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought.
Berry, Steven M., Vico's Prescient Evolutionary Model for Homer.
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.
Bollack, Jean, The Art of Reading: From Homer to Paul Celan.
Bonifazi, Anna, Homer's Versicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Word-Making.
Bonifazi, Anna, Annemieke Drummen, Mark de Kreij, Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Five Volumes Exploring Particle Use Across Genres.
Calame, Claude, Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece.
Calame, Claude, Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space.
Cameron, Averil, Dialoguing in Late Antiquity. 
Capra, Andrea, Plato's Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy.
Compton, Todd M., Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History.
Davies, Malcolm, The Theban Epics. 
Davies, Malcolm, The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed.
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.
Edmunds, Susan, Homeric Nēpios.
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.
Franklin, John Curtis, Kinyras: The Divine Lyre. 
Funke, Peter, and Nino Luraghi, eds. The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League.
Garcia, Lorenzo F., Jr., Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad.
Giesecke, Annette, The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome.
González, José M., The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective.
Greene, Ellen, and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues.
Hitch, Sarah, King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority 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 τέχνη bei Plato.
Johnson, Aaron, and Jeremy Schott, eds., Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations.
Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, editor, Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism.
Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study.
Jones, Prudence J., Africa: Greek and Roman Perspectives from Homer to Apuleius.
Kalvesmaki, Joel, The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity.
Lesher, James, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield, editors, Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception.
Levaniouk, Olga, Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19.
Lord, Albert Bates, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition.
Lord, Albert Bates, The Singer of Tales.
Lord, Albert Bates, The Singer Resumes the Tale.
Luraghi, Nino and Susan E. Alcock, eds., Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures.
Marks, J., Zeus in the Odyssey.
Martin, Richard P. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad.
Munson, Rosario Vignolo, Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians.
Muellner, Leonard Charles, The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic.
Muellner, Leonard Charles, The meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι through its formulas.
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, Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter.
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, Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now.
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.
Nagy, Gregory, Short Writings, Volume 3.
Nagy, Gregory, Short Writings, Volume 4.
Olson, Ryan S., Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus.
Papadogiannakis, Yannis. Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret's Apologetics against the Greeks in Context.
Papadopoulou, Ioanna, and Leonard Muellner, eds., Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus.
Parmegianni, Giovanni, editor, Between Thucydides and Polybius: The Golden Age of Greek Historiography.
Parry, Milman, L'Épithète Traditionnelle dans Homère : Essai sur un problème de style Homérique.
Parry, Milman, Les formules et la métrique d'Homère.
Pathak, Shubha, Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India.
Pepper, Timothy, editor, A Californian Hymn to Homer.
Peradotto, John, Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey (3.7 MB PDF download).
Petropoulos, J. C. B., Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited.
Petropoulos, J.C.B., Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince.
Platte, Ryan, Equine Poetics.
Power, Timothy, The Culture of Kitharôidia.
Roilos, Panagiotis, Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel.
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.
Schur, David, Plato's Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic.
Schwartz, Daniel L., Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia.
Shayegan, M. Rahim, Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām.
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.
Tsagalis, Christos, From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad.
Tsagalis, Christos, The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics. 
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.
Wells, James Bradley, Pindar's Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style.
Wesselmann, Katharina, Mythical Structures in Herodotus' Histories.
West, William Custis, III, Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars.
Winkler, Daniela, Ankle and Ankle Epithets in Archaic Greek Verse.
Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception.

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."
Bierl, Anton, "Space in Xenophon of Ephesus: Love, Dreams, and Dissemination."
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."
Dué, Casey, "Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century."
Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III, "Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin."
Ferrari, Gloria, "Anthropological Approaches."
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, "The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction."
Nagy, Gregory, "Alcaeus in Sacred Space." 
Nagy, Gregory, "Ancient Greek Elegy."
Nagy, Gregory, "An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia."
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, "Convergences and divergences between god and hero in the Mnesiepes Inscription of Paros."
Nagy, Gregory, "Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Delian Maidens and their Relevance to Choral Mimesis in Classical Drama."
Nagy, Gregory, "Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey."
Nagy, Gregory, "Diachrony and the case of Aesop."
Nagy, Gregory, "On Dialectal Anomalies in Pylian Texts."
Nagy, Gregory, "Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet?"
Nagy, Gregory, "'Dream of a Shade': Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns."
Nagy, Gregory, "Epic."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Epic Hero."
Nagy, Gregory, "The fire ritual of the Iguvine Tables: Facing a central problem in the study of ritual language."
Nagy, Gregory, Foreword to Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Selina Stewart. Cornell University Press, 2000.
Nagy, Gregory, Foreword to Mothers in Mourning, by Nicole Loraux. Trans. Corinne Pache. Cornell University Press, 1998.
Nagy, Gregory, "The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach."
Nagy, Gregory, "Genre and Occasion."
Nagy, Gregory, “Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited—with special reference to the ‘newest Sappho’.”
Nagy, Gregory, "Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians."
Nagy, Gregory, "Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Homer Multitext Project."
Nagy, Gregory, "Homer and Greek Myth."
Nagy, Gregory, "Homer as Model for The Ancient Library: Metaphors of Corpus and Cosmos."
Nagy, Gregory, "Homeric Echoes in Posidippus."
Nagy, Gregory, "Homeric Poetry and Problems of Multiformity: The 'Panathenaic Bottleneck'."
Nagy, Gregory, "Homo ludens in the world of ancient Greek verbal art."
Nagy, Gregory, "Hymnic Elements in Empedocles."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Idea of the Library as a Classical Model for European Culture."
Nagy, Gregory,  Greek Literature: Introductions and Suggested Bibliographies. 
Nagy, Gregory, "The Library of Pergamon as a Classical Model." 
Nagy, Gregory, "Language and Meter."
Nagy, Gregory, "Lyric and Greek Myth."
Nagy, Gregory, "The meaning of homoios (ὁμοῖος) in verse 27 of the Hesiodic Theogony and elsewhere."
Nagy, Gregory, "The 'New Sappho' Reconsidered in the Light of the Athenian Reception of Sappho."
Nagy, Gregory, "Observations on Greek dialects in the late second millennium BCE."
Nagy, Gregory, "Orality and Literacy."
Nagy, Gregory, "Performance and Text in Ancient Greece."
Nagy, Gregory, "Poetics of Repetition in Homer."
Nagy, Gregory, "A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho."
Nagy, Gregory, "Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics: An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past."
Nagy, Gregory, "Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri."
Nagy, Gregory, "Review (part I) of M. L. West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)."
Nagy, Gregory, "Review (part II) of M. L. West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford 2007)."
Nagy, Gregory, "Review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen."
Nagy, Gregory, "A Sampling of Comments on the Iliad and Odyssey."
Nagy, Gregory, "A second look at a possible Mycenaean reflex in Homer: phorēnai."
Nagy, Gregory, "A Second Look at the Poetics of Re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides." 
Nagy, Gregory, "The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus."
Nagy, Gregory, "Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry."
Nagy, Gregory, "The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording."
Nagy, Gregory, "Theognis and Megara: A Poet's Vision of his City."
Nagy, Gregory, "Things said and not said in a ritual text: Iguvine Tables Ib 10-16 / VIb 48-53."
Nagy, Gregory, "Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater."
Nagy, Gregory, "Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria."
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
Herodotus, Selections, Part I and Part II

Hesiod, Theogony
Hesiod, Works and Days
Homeric Iliad
Homeric Odyssey
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Pausanias, Description of Greece: A Pausanias Reader in Progress
Philostratus, On Heroes
Pindar, Pythian 8
Plato, The Apology of Socrates
Plato, Phaedo
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos
Theognis of Megara