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
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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
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours: Sourcebook
General Editor: Gregory Nagy Executive Editors: Keith DeStone, Sarah Scott Production Manager, Center for Hellenic Studies: Noel Spencer Production Editor, HarvardX: Sarah Scott A collection of open-source English translations of Classical texts for use with the EdX course The Ancient Greek Hero. Download in other formats: epub, mobi, PDF. Read more
CHS Visiting Artist:
Matteo Tarasco
Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Matteo Tarasco is a theatre director who has extensively engaged with ancient Greece in his career. Among the most innovative and significant contributions is his investigation of myth from the female… Read more
2021 Spring Fellow:
Marieke Dhont
Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature As a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, I am working on a project entitled Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature. I focus on situating Jewish poetry in Greek both within the world of Hellenistic literature as well as within our understanding of Second Temple Judaism. The study of Jewish literature in Greek is a thoroughly… Read more
2021 Spring Fellow:
Ian Hensley
The Hellenistic Stoics defend a striking combination of claims within their physics, some of which appear to be in tension with others. First, they argue that only bodies can be causes, and all processes and conditions in the natural world result from bodies making contact with each other. However, they also maintain that an omnipresent God exists, and he crafts the world to be as good as possible. Thus, God… Read more
Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority
This book is about Salentine Greek—or simply Griko—a language of Greek origins transmitted orally from generation to generation in Salento, in the Apulian province of Lecce, the ‘heel’ of the boot of Italy. Its pool of speakers started shrinking after the contact that had once existed with Greece receded in the fifteenth century; interestingly, ever since the Italian linguist Giuseppe Morosi ‘discovered’ Griko in the middle of the nineteenth century, the… Read more
Summer Internships Announcement
CHS Greece will sponsor two remote museum internships for Harvard students this summer: the Museum of Cycladic Art Internship and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum Internship. Read more
Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens
5 March 2021, 11:00 am ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCEJT1blsIQ The Kosmos Society is excited to welcome Julia Shear (CHS fellow in Hellenic Studies) for an Open House entitled “Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens.” The event will take place on Friday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel. To get ready for the event, you might… Read more
Proximity and Politics
19 March 2021, 12:00 pm ET
Democracy has always been intensely physical. But in an age of social distancing and social media, does it remain important to feel the power of the mass, democratic crowd as an expression of popular will? Join us for a conversation on the importance of physical proximity in democracy, ancient and modern. Read more