Gregory Nagy, the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979; 2nd ed. 1999). Other publications include Homer the Preclassic (University of California Press 2010; paperback ed. 2017) and The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Harvard University Press 2013; paperback ed. 2020). With Stephen A. Mitchell, he co-edited a second edition (2000) of Albert Lord’s The Singer of Tales (1960), co-authoring a new Introduction. From 2000 to 2021, he was Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, while continuing to teach every week at the Harvard campus in Cambridge MA. Since stepping down from the directorship in 2021, he has continued as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. From 1994 to 2000, he was Chair of the Classics Department at Harvard.