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Our Friend and Colleague Ross Scaife

It is with great sadness that we make this announcement. Our beloved colleague and friend Ross Scaife died on March 15, 2008. His family was with him, and his death was peaceful. He will be missed by all who have known and worked with him. There was a memorial service in Lexington, Kentucky, on April 12.

For more thoughts about our dear Ross, please see: www.stoa.org

CALL FOR PAPERS  

A conference will be held in Tuzla, Bosnia/Hercegovina, July 3-6, 2008, entitled "Return of the Song: The Milman Parry Collection and Its Reception in the World / Povratak pjesme: Zbirka Milmana Parryja i njeni recepcijski odjeci u svijetu." For details, refer to this page...

MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE MARCIANA LIBRARY

Images of three Medieval manuscripts of the Iliad are now available on-line. The high resolution images of the manuscripts, which are all housed in Venice's Marciana library, were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007.  

 Derveni Papyrus symposium - JuLy 2008

The CHS will be hosting a three-day symposium on the Derveni Papyrus, from Monday, July 7th, to Wednesday, July 9th, 2008. In light of the recent publication of the edition by Theokritos Kouremenos, George M. Parassoglou, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou (Florence, Olschki, 2006), this symposium will be an opportunity to gather scholars who in the course of the past decades have been working on this text in order to address a set of issues relating to the edition and integration of the papyrus, its translation, and its interpretation. Albert Henrichs (Harvard University), Francesca Schironi (Harvard University), and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University and Center for Hellenic Studies) will host the conference.

Invitations were extended to a number of leading classicists who have worked on the Derveni papyrus, and here is a list of those who have accepted:
 
Adalberto Bernabé (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
Anton Bierl (University of Basel)
Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Fritz Graf (The Ohio State University)
Richard Hunter (Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Sarah Iles Johnston (The Ohio State University)
Charles Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
Theokritos Kouremenos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Franco Montanari (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Chicago)
Davide Muratore (Cuneo, Italy)
Dirk Obbink (Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK)
Ioanna Papadopoulou (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell University)
David Sider (New York University)
Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Yannis Tzifopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)   
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Johns Hopkins University)

Featured Online Publications

Online Books
The Center for Hellenic Studies presents full-text, online editions of monographs, books in the CHS Hellenic Studies series, essays, and lectures.

Classics@ Issue 1: Newly revised and updated, July 2007. The Posidippus Epigrams and Bibliography have been updated. See Classics @ Issue 1.

Classics@ Issue 3: The Homerizon: Conceptual Interrogations in Homeric Studies is now available here as an Online Publication. For more on the conference, as well as PDF versions of the papers, see Classics @ Issue 3.

Recent Online publications include:

• Casey Dué, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
  
• Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics
  
• The Frank M. Snowden Jr. Lectures of Howard University
• First Drafts@Classics@
  

You can also access the full text of CHS Director Gregory Nagy's Homeric Questions on the Stoa Consortium's website.

Conference Proceedings

Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies, a collection of 15 essays edited by Deborah Lyons (Miami University of Ohio) and Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University), is now available.

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Fellowships

Fellows 2008-2009
The Center for Hellenic Studies announces the new group of Fellows currently in residence.

Alumni Outreach
Visit our Alumni page and stay connected with the CHS community.

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