Over one full day at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, Translation in a Golden Age will gather together several translators, scholars, performers and producers of ancient Greek poetry for contemporary audiences. This colloquium is mostly but not exclusively devoted to translations of Homer, traditionally held to be the first epic poet in the Western tradition. Read more
Kombos Collective presents 100 Years of Hadjidakis, celebrating the centennial birthday of this beloved composer. Katerina Clambaneva (voice), Ellie Falaris Ganelin (flute) and Mary-Victoria Voutsas (piano) will perform a program of his songs and piano works. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies mourns the passing of Michael C. J. Putnam. An alumnus of Harvard University (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.) and long-time faculty member at Brown’s Department of Classics, Michael was a dedicated servant to the field of classics. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2026-27 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Pasco as Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs. Read more
Join us for a two-day gathering that celebrates the living spirit of the ancient Delphic Games through a contemporary lens—where myth breathes, music resounds, and the Muses rise anew. Read more
This newsletter to welcome our residential summer fellows contains news, a recap of spring and summer activities, and a brief summary of CHS library services. CHS LIBRARY NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2025Download… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the 2025-26 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship programs encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece. Read more
The following monographs arrived in September 2025. Listed in call number order. Philosophy & Religion Iakovos Vasiliou. Varieties of Happiness: Eudaimonism and Greek Ethical Theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025.B 187.H3 V37 2025 Matteo Varoli. Le matematiche nella letteratura pseudopitagorica. Milano: Mimesis, 2025.B 244 .M3 V37 2025 Plato. Parmenide. Brescia: Scholé, 2025.B 378 .A8 I83 2025 … Read more
Ptolemy’s Geography Facsimile of the original manuscript of the earliest Latin translation of the second century Greek-Egyptian geographer, astronomer, and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography from 1472. It contains Ptolemy’s calculations of longitude and latitude coordinates of the known world of the second century along with 44 maps. Ptolemy’s descriptions led Christopher Columbus on his travels, and his geocentric system was the accepted world view for more than 1,000 years… Read more
By Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian Two famous and exquisite manuscript facsimiles are on display at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Both are of texts and images by ancient Greek writers, one a geographer, mathematician, astronomer, music theorist, and philosopher living in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemaios, and the other a medical doctor, Pedanius Dioscorides living in the 1st century CE. Both were revolutionary for their time and their work… Read more
