A Homer Commentary in Progress

The Iliad

with a partial, ongoing translation by Casey Dué Hackney, Mary Ebbott, Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy

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The Odyssey

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Homeric Hymns

To Dionysus Greek text To Demeter Greek text To Apollo Greek text To Hermes Greek text To Aphrodite Greek text To Aphrodite Greek text To Dionysus Greek text To Ares Greek text To Artemis Greek text To Aphrodite Greek text To Athena Greek text To Hera Greek text To Demeter Greek text To the Mother of the Gods Greek text To Heracles the Lion-hearted Greek text To Asclepius Greek text To the Dioscuri Greek text To Hermes Greek text To Pan Greek text To Hephaestus Greek text To Apollo Greek text To Poseidon Greek text To the Son of Cronos, Most High Greek text To Hestia Greek text To the Muses and Apollo Greek text To Dionysus Greek text To Artemis Greek text To Athena Greek text To Hestia Greek text To Earth the Mother of All Greek text To Helios Greek text To Selene Greek text To the Dioscuri Greek text

About

Editors/Commenters: Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy (founding editors); Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott, David Elmer, Olga Levaniouk, Richard Martin, Corinne Pache, John Petropoulos, Laura Slatkin, Thomas Walsh; Associate Editors/Commenters: Keith DeStone, Anita Nikkanen; Assistant Editors: Daniel Cline, Angelia Hanhardt

The intellectual goal of A Homer commentary in progress is simple and at the same time most ambitious: of all existing commentaries on Homeric poetry, ours is the first and only such commentary that is based squarely on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and his student, Albert Lord, who created a new way of thinking about Homeric poetry. Both Parry and Lord taught at Harvard University (Parry died prematurely in 1935, when he was still an assistant professor, while Lord was a distinguished Emeritus Professor at the time of his death in 1991). The lifelong research of Parry (collected papers: 1971) and Lord (1960; second edition 2000 by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy, with new introduction; new online and print editions are forthcoming), as summarized in Lord’s magisterial synthesis, The Singer of Tales (1960), proved that Homeric poetry is a system generated from oral traditions, and that the building blocks of this system are formulas on the level of form and themes on the level of meaning (Lord 1960:4). Our commentary is designed to analyze and explain this system of formulas and themes, to which we refer short-hand as a formulaic system.