Rituals and Revelations
22 March 2021, 2:00 pm ET
Michael Puett (Harvard University) on re-thinking some of our categories in the study of religion from a comparative perspective. Read more
Archive
Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum
A virtual birthday gift presented to Gregory Nagy on turning seventy by his students, colleagues, and friends Acknowledgments The editorial team wishes to thank all the contributors for their hard work and patience over the five years that this project developed and matured. Over that time, we have had substantive assistance from many individuals, to the extent that we are sure to omit some of them unintentionally, even though we… Read more
The End of the Histories
19 March 2021, 11:00 am ET
We are excited to welcome Scarlett Kingsley and Timothy Rood for an Online Open House entitled “The End of the Histories.” The event will take place on Friday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel. Read more
CHS Visiting Artist:
Akis Goumas
To register for Akis Goumas’ visiting artist presentation taking place on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 11:30 am EDT, please visit the event page. Akis Goumas is a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of mainly ancient crafting technologies of the Aegean region. He was born in Greece in 1952, and, after receiving his Diploma in Economics, he was trained as a goldsmith and later as a silversmith. Read more
Visiting Artist Presentation: Akis Goumas
26 March 2021, 11:30 am ET
Part of the CHS Visiting Artist Presentation Series, this presentation features Akis Goumas, a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of ancient crafting technologies in the Aegean. Read more
Comparatism Seminar Series
7 April 2021
This one-semester seminar series investigates current research and methodologies in comparatism, a key issue in Classical Studies, both within the ancient Mediterranean and more broadly. Read more
2021 Spring Fellow:
Alessandro Buccheri
A poetic botany? My research aims to answer three interrelated questions: What did the botanical knowledge of the archaic and the classical Greek era look like? How and why did it offer Greek authors of the time convenient ways of thinking (analogically) about other aspects or areas of experience and speculation, such as the body, kinship ties, or society? Ultimately, may all this help us understand how archaic and classical… Read more
ὀπάων and ὀπάζω: A Study in the Epic Treatment of Heroic Relationships
“In the Iliad, the relationship of Mērionēs and Idomeneus plays a peripheral role as compared to the central relationship of Akhilleus and Patroklos. As we shall see, the behavior of Mērionēs and Idomeneus towards one another is a variation on the theme of the heroic relationship of Akhilleus and Patroklos. The Iliad also describes the relations of gods and men. The antagonism of Akhilleus and Apollo is set against the backdrop of gods… Read more
Continuities and Comparisons
10 March 2021, 2:00 pm ET
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard and Leiden Universities) on the role of hierarchy in modern democracies and their lien on ancient pasts. Read more
Plato’s Phaedo, trans. Grewal
Translated by Gwenda-lin Grewal © 2006, 2018 ECHECRATES PHAEDO [1] {57a} ECHECRATES: You yourself, Phaedo, were you present with Socrates on that day on which he drank the poison [2] in the prison, or did you hear from someone else? PHAEDO: I myself, Echecrates. ECHECRATES: So then, what exactly is it the man said before his… Read more