Gregory Nagy is Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, and teaches at the Harvard campus in Cambridge, MA, as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature. His publications include The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (1979; 2nd edn., 1999); Homer the Preclassic (2010; paperback edn., 2017); and The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (2013). With Stephen A. Mitchell, he coedited the second edition (2000) of Albert Lord’s The Singer of Tales (1960), coauthoring a new introduction. He is Associate Editor of the Homer Multitext.