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
Archive
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
Seneca’s Thyestes
25 February 2021, 3:00 pm ET
Join us on Wednesday for a live reading and discussion of Seneca's Thyestes (translation by Paul Murgatroyd), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Helen Slaney (La Trobe University). Directed by Paul O'Mahony, the featured actors include Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, David Rubin, and Sara Valentine. Read more
A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood
19 February 2021, 4:00 pm ET
We are excited to welcome Arti Mehta of Howard University for an Online Open House entitled “ A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa.” The event will take place on Friday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. EST Read more
Featured Visiting Artist: Phoebe Giannisi
Credit: Sofia Camplioni Phoebe Giannisi was born in Athens in 1964. She studied architecture at the National Polytechnic School of Athens (1988) and received her PhD at the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris (1994), where she completed a dissertation on Ancient Greek poetry and architecture, focusing on the metaphor of the poem as a path (published later as Récits des voies. Chant et cheminement en Grèce archaïque. Grenoble: Editions… Read more
Call for Volunteers: Open Greek and Latin Project
Sign-up for this program is currently closed. Check back in late spring for the next round of sign-ups! The Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP), in collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is seeking volunteers to help the First Thousand Years of Greek Project reach its goal! There are approximately… Read more
‘Ich aber (sage), das Schönste ist, was einer Liebt’: Eine pragmatische Deutung von Sappho Fr. 16 LP/V
This article is a 2009 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n.s. 74.2 (103), 2003, 91-124. Copyright, Fabrizio Serra editore. Bierl-Sappho-Fr.-16bib-4… Read more
Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey
Beginning with a diagnosis of the current state of American classical philology, John Peradotto proceeds to concentrate on textual practices of naming and narrating in the Odyssey from a perspective that blends traditional philological with semiotic and narratological techniques. What emerges from this reading is a view of the poem as a tense opposition between “myth” and “folktale,” recognized as vehicles for contrasting ideological opinions on the world. With terms… Read more
A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America
Here is a clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community. This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of Orthodox and Hellenic traditions in America for the newcomer and for Greek Americans wishing to learn more. Here are the traditions of Orthodoxy so that the reader can understand and follow services in church and related practices at home. You will learn how to plan a… Read more