Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Director of Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University. His special research interests include Archaic and Classical Greek poetry and prose; rhetoric, linguistics, metrics, traditions. His representative works include The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (1979), Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990), Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (1996), Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (2002), Homeric Responses (2003), Homer’s Text and Language (2004), etc.