When was Gregory Nagy born and where?
Gregory Nagy was born on the 22nd of October 1942 in Budapest. He began his higher education journey at Indiana University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962.
Gregory Nagy was born on the 22nd of October 1942 in Budapest. He began his higher education journey at Indiana University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962.
Gregory Nagy built upon theories developed by Milman Parry and Albert Lord regarding Homeric poetry to argue that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed orally rather than written down initially. His work focused heavily on the concept of composition-in-performance as a living tradition within its cultural context.
Since 2000 Gregory Nagy has directed the Center for Hellenic Studies located in Washington D.C. while holding dual professorships in Classical Greek Literature and Comparative literature today. He continues teaching half-time on the main campus in Cambridge Massachusetts.
About 27,000 individuals registered for the massive open online version of Gregory Nagy's course titled The Ancient Greek Hero which launched through edX in 2013. Thousands of students had enrolled in this class over previous decades before its online expansion.
Gregory Nagy released his first book with Harvard University Press in 1970 under the title Greek Dialects and the Transformation of an Indo-European Process. His most recent works include The Homeric Hymn to Dionysos published by Lulu Press in 2015 spanning more than five decades of continuous publication activity.