Texts
Sourcebook, in two volumes.
Availabe in PDF format, see below.
Available for purchase at the
Harvard Coop, on reserve at Lamont and the Quad Library, and online
in full at the course website. The Sourcebook contains: G. Nagy, "Introduction to the Homeric
Iliad and Odyssey";
Homer, Iliad; Homer, Odyssey; the Proclus summaries of the Epic Cycle; Alcman, Partheneion (The Maidens' Song); the poems of Sappho; Pindar, Pythian 8; G. Nagy, "Notes on Athenian Tragedy"; Aeschylus,
the Oresteia trilogy
(Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides); Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Tyrannos (Oedipus
Rex); Euripides, Hippolytus, Bacchae;
selections from Herodotus, Histories;
Plato, Apology and
Phaedo; selections from Pausanias; Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days; selections from Theognis of Megara. The Sourcebook also contains the following supplemental reading:
Homeric Hymn to Demeter;
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite;
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes;
Euripides, Herakles;
selections from Aristotole; Sophocles, Antigone.
Selections from Philostratus, Heroikos (available online); selected explanatory articles and
introductions, listed in the schedule below (available online).
Please disregard the division "Supplementary
Reading Material" on page 239 of Volume II of the Sourcebook. Always follow the guidelines on the course schedule and the
required reading list above.
Required Reading
Sourcebook,
Volume 1 (7 MB, PDF)
Sourcebook,
Volume 2 (6 MB, PDF)
(in alpha
order)
Apobatēs
article, by Professor Nagy
"Did Sappho and Alcaeus ever meet?"
Flavius
Philostratus, On Heroes (Updated 10-29-07)
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"The
fragmentary Muse and the poetics of refraction in Sappho, Sophocles,
Offenbach," by Gregory Nagy
"Homer
and Greek Myth," by Gregory Nagy
Introduction
1: Facts about the "Heroes" course (a
five-minute sketch)
Introduction
2: Relevant facts about ancient Greek history (a five-minute
sketch)
Introduction
3: "The Epic Hero," by Gregory Nagy
"Les
Contes d'Hoffmann" Libretto (1907)
"Lyric
and Greek Myth," by Gregory Nagy
Pindar's
Pythian 8
The
Sign of the Hero: A Prologue to the Heroikos of Philostratus,
by Gregory Nagy (PDF format)
Recommended
Reading
G. Nagy.
The
Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
(Johns Hopkins University Press; 2nd ed. 1999).
G. Nagy.
Pindar's
Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
(Johns
Hopkins University Press 1990).
These books
(The Best of the Achaeans and Pindar's Homer)
cover some, but hardly all, of the topics to be presented in the
course.
Other Reading
G.
Nagy, “Refractions of Epic Vision in Aeschylus’ Seven
Against Thebes and Pindar’s Pythian 8”
Nagy's
informal commentary on Herakles
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