Presenters

Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. He has served as the Chair of the Deparment of the Classics at Harvard University from 1994 to 2000 and the President of the American Philological Association for 1990-91.

He is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982. To name just a few of his other publications, he has also written Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), and Homeric Responses (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003).

Andrew Riggsby

Riggsby Andrew Riggsby is a Professor of Classics and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

He is the author of Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome (University of Texas Press, 1999) and Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words (University of Texas Press, 2006), which was named an outstanding book in Classics and Ancient History in 2006 by the Association of American Publishers.

Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press is his Introduction to Roman Law. In addition, Riggsby is working on a monograph on the cognitive history of the Roman world, and he is preparing a commentary with Anthony Corbeill on Cicero's De Haruspicum Responsis.

Bruce Lincoln

Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago; a full member of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and Committee on the History of Culture; and an Associate Member, Departments of Anthropology and Classics, University of Chicago.

He is the author of Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, which was named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1989 by Choice, and has published some ten other books, including Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (University of Chicago Press 1999), which won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2000 and the Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press in 2002, and more recently Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which won the Frank Moore Cross Award of the American Society of Oriental Research for the best book on the Ancient Near East.



Links: Fear in the Ancient World Department of Classics Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere	THE SPEAKERS Gregory Nagy Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. He has served as the Chair of the Deparment of the Classics at Harvard University from 1994 to 2000 and the President of the American Philological Association for 1990-91. He is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982. To name just a few of his other publications, he has also written Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), and Homeric Responses (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). Andrew Riggsby Andrew Riggsby is a Professor of Classics and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome (University of Texas Press, 1999) and Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words (University of Texas Press, 2006), which was named an outstanding book in Classics and Ancient History in 2006 by the Association of American Publishers. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press is his Introduction to Roman Law. In addition, Riggsby is working on a monograph on the cognitive history of the Roman world, and he is preparing a commentary with Anthony Corbeill on Cicero's De Haruspicum Responsis. Bruce Lincoln Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago; a full member of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and Committee on the History of Culture; and an Associate Member, Departments of Anthropology and Classics, University of Chicago. He is the author of Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, which was named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1989 by Choice, and has published some ten other books, including Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship (University of Chicago Press 1999), which won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2000 and the Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press in 2002, and more recently Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which won the Frank Moore Cross Award of the American Society of Oriental Research for the best book on the Ancient Near East.

THE SPEAKERS

Gregory Nagy

Andrew Riggsby

Bruce Lincoln