Online Resources for Homeric Studies at CHS

Online Resources for Homeric Studies at CHS

The Center for Hellenic Studies offers students and scholars of Homer a particularly deep selection of publications and resources–all freely available online at chs.harvard.edu:

The Homer Multitext Project

The Homer Multitext project, the first of its kind in Homeric studies, presents the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. It offers free access to a library of texts and images, a machine-interface to that library and its indices, and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition.

Online Publications

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 the journal Classics@, which features dynamic issues on topics such as the Epic Cycle, and the Homerizon Conference.

I.  Books or Monographs:

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.
Dué, Casey
The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
A print version of this book is available here.
Dué, Casey
Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
Available for purchase in print here.
Dué, Casey 
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (3.5 MB PDF download)
Also available for purchase in print here.
Dué, Casey, and Ebbott, Mary
Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush
The print version is available for purchase here.
Ebbott, Mary
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
Also available for purchase in print here.
Frame, Douglas
Hippota Nestor
Also available for purchase in print here.
Frame, Douglas
The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Levaniouk, Olga
Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19
Also available for purchase in print here.
Marks, J.
Zeus in the Odyssey
Also available for purchase in print here.
Martin, Richard P.
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
Nagy, Gregory
Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work
Nagy, Gregory
Greek Mythology and Poetics
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Homer the Classic
The print edition is available for purchase here.
Nagy, Gregory
Homer the Preclassic
A print edition is available for purchase here.
Nagy, Gregory
Homeric Questions
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Homeric Responses
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Homer’s Text and Language
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
Also available for purchase in print here.
Nagy, Gregory
Short Writings, Volume 1
Volume one (2012) in a series of online anthologies containing articles written by Gregory Nagy.
Nagy, Gregory
Short Writings, Volume 2
Volume two (2012) in a series of online anthologies containing articles written by Gregory Nagy.
Parry, Milman
L’Épithète Traditionnelle dans Homère : Essai sur un problème de style Homérique
Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
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
Also available for purchase in print here.
Power, Timothy
The Culture of Kitharôidia
A print version is available for purchase here.
Roth, Catharine P.
“Mixed Aorists” in Homeric Greek.
Slatkin, Laura
The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
Also available for purchase in print here.

II. Articles, Essays, and Lectures

Classics@, Issue 9, “Defense Mechanisms,
Aitken, Ellen
“An Early Christian Homerizon? Decoy, Direction, and Doxology.” [PDF Version (562 Kb)]
Armstrong, Richard H.
“From Huponoia to Paranoia: On the Secular Co-optation of Homeric Religion in Vico, Feuerbach, and Freud.” [PDF Version (388 Kb)]
Bakker, Egbert J.
“Rhapsodes, Bards, and Bricoleurs: Homerizing Literary Theory.” [PDF Version (185 Kb)]
Burgess, Jonathan
“Tumuli of Achilles.” [PDF Version (4821 Kb)]
Dué, Casey
“The Invention of Ossian.” [PDF Version (1794 Kb)]
Ebbott, Mary
“Butler’s Authoress of the Odyssey: Gendered Readings of Homer, Then and Now.” [PDF Version (354 Kb)]
Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III,
“Recycling Laertes’ Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin.”
2008 online first edition published under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Frame, Douglas
“The Homeric Poems after Ionia: A Case in Point.” [PDF Version (2519 Kb)]
Graziosi, Barbara
“Homer and the Definition of Epic.” [PDF Version (251 Kb)]
Güthenke, Constanze
“The Philhellenic Horizon: Homeric Prolegomena to the Greek War of Independence.” [PDF Version (453 Kb)]
Haubold, Johannes
“Homer between East and West.” [PDF Version (237 Kb)]
Knippschild, Silke
“Homer to the Defense: The Accademia degli Incogniti and the opera Il Ritorno d?Ulisse in Patria in Early Modern Venice.” [PDF Version (284 Kb)]
Martin, Richard
“Cretan Homers: Tradition, Politics, Fieldwork.” [PDF Version (370 Kb)]
Marwede, David,
“A Structural Analysis of the Meleagros Myth.”
Published here for the first time under a Creative Commons License 3.0.  Based on a report for a seminar directed by Gregory Nagy and held at the Johns Hopkins University in the fall semester of 1973.
Muellner, Leonard
“Discovery Procedures and Principles for Homeric Research.” [PDF Version (226 Kb)]
Muellner, Leonard
“Homeric Anger Revisited.” Classics@, Issue 9, “Defense Mechanisms”
Nagy, Gregory,
See Short Writings, Volumes 1 and 2 above.
Porter, James
“Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in Homeric Criticism.” [PDF (496 kb)]
Prince, Cashman Kerr
“Poeta sovrano? Horizons of Homer in Twentieth-Century English-Language Poetry.” [PDF Version (707 Kb)]
Rousseau, Philippe,
“The Plot of Zeus.”
Walsh, Tom
“Cretan Homer’s Fragment of Tradition.” [PDF Version (231 Kb)]

III. Primary Texts

Homer
Odyssey
Samuel Butler’s translation, revised by Timothy Power, Gregory Nagy, Soo-Young Kim, and Kelly McCray. Published here under a Creative Commons License 3.0.
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (PDF, 94KB), translation of poem by Gregory Nagy (see next item for illustrated version)
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Drawings by Glynnis Fawkes, translation by Gregory Nagy. Published at www.lulu.com (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-homeric-hymn-to-aphrodite/11391510)
Philostratus
On Heroes
Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, published by Society for Biblical Literature. Copyright, Society for Biblical Literature.

IV. Discussion Series

The Center for Hellenic Studies offers web-based seminars through on-line lecture and discussion series. Such series are part of the Center’s mission to promote the study of Hellenic Civilization and to engage as wide an audience as possible.
Homer’s Poetic Justice
The Homeric Odyssey & the Cultivation of Justice

V. Open Learning Course

Gregory Nagy
Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization
As part of its educational mission, CHS offers free access to a distance learning course taught by Center Director Gregory Nagy. Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization provides an engaging introduction to the major themes of ancient Greek myth, cult, and poetics. All readings are in translation and include the epics of Homer, seven tragedies, two Platonic dialogues, and the dialogue On Heroes by Philostratus. We invite you to learn more by accessing all the content from 2010 via our blog post on kleos@CHS.

And see also Open Access Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies