Resources
Proseminar Video and Audio
See CHS Multimedia for Proseminar Sesions with Heroes TFs, Professor
Greg Nagy, and Head Teaching Fellow Kevin McGrath, recorded 2008.
This space will be updated as new materials are available.
Video files: Click on the link to view the video in a seprate
browser window.
Audio files: These files are zipped mp4 audio-only files, so
you can download them without having Quicktime Pro. Click the
link to download. Once downloaded, unzip the file and use iTunes
or whatever software you use to play on your portable mp3/4 player,
iPod, etc.
Lamont Library
Lamont
Library Reserve System
Supplementary Readings
An
Introduction to Close Reading, by David Schur (PDF format).
The
Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
(Johns Hopkins University Press; 2nd ed. 1999), by Gregory Nagy.
"Performance and text in ancient Greece"
Pindar's
Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
(Johns Hopkins University Press 1990), by Gregory Nagy
The
Shield of Achilles: Ends of the Iliad and Beginnings of the Polis.
An Essay by Gregory Nagy.
Diotima
is a site devoted to the study of women and gender in the ancient
world. It contains several types of links to resources on related
topics.
The Perseus
Project This site is a database of classical Greek and Latin
texts, translations, lexica, images of classical art and archaeology,
archaeological site plans.
Greek History
You can read a condensed
version of Thomas Martin's Ancient Greece on-line on
The Perseus Project.
Greek Tragedy
The Introduction
to Greek Tragedy from Brooklyn College provides useful information
for reading Greek tragedy. It discusses tragic festivals, actors,
the chorus, and the structure of the plays.
Homer/Oral Literature
The
Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.
G.
Nagy recites Homer. Professor Nagy recites several passages
from the Iliad, including the first sixteen lines and two attested
shorter variants of those lines.
Select bibliography
on the "Homeric questions"
Wallace
Stevens, "Peter Quince at the Clavier."
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