An Ancient Cabaret
15 December 2021, 3:00 pm ET
A special edition of Reading Greek Tragedy Online Read more
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Harvard Students, Apply Now: Teaching Internship in Greece
The CHS seeks up to 4 Harvard College students to serve as Teaching Fellows (TFs) for the CHS High School Summer Program (HSSP) in Greece. TFs will support the HSSP faculty members and participate in planning, coordinating, and teaching a two-week seminar. The first phase of the internship will be the TFs' preparation preparation during the spring semester, and the second phase will be the program itself. Read more
The Laodamiad
1 December 2021, 3:00 pm ET
A play about the myth of Laodamia and Protesilaus Read more
Gatsos in Translation
8 December 2021, 12:00 pm ET
Join our panel of distinguished guests to celebrate the legacy of Nikos Gatsos (1911–1992), one of the great twentieth-centuary Greek poets and lyricists. Read more
Goddess and the Women of Gods
17 November 2021, 3:00 pm ET
Monologues from Greek tragedy and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter with Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) Read more
The Iliad, Scroll 1
3 November 2021, 4:00 pm ET
Reading Greek Tragedy Online turns to Iliad 1 with Jared Simard (New York University) and Maria Xanthou (University of Bristol) Read more
Demetrios of Scepsis and His Troikos Diakosmos: Ancient and Modern Readings of a Lost Contribution to Ancient Scholarship
Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these lost figures, best known for his commentary on the Trojan Catalogue in Book 2 of the Iliad. Alexandra Trachsel’s work represents the first treatment dedicated to Demetrios of Scepsis in over a century. Because of the incomplete transmission of Demetrios’s work, Trachsel necessarily focuses on the way later readers… Read more
Panel Discussion on The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary
4 November 2021, 1:00 pm ET
On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, this panel brings together a range of scholars from History, Political Science, and Classics, to explore the significance of this book, as well as the Greek Revolution and its legacy. Read more
Proximity and Scientific Explanations
29 October 2021, 12:00 pm ET
We will discuss "why" and "how" questions, the understanding of causality in Ancient Greek philosophy, and the difference between proximate and distant causes. Read more