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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Charles Stocking, Western University (Ontario, Canada) | Mind, Body, and Athletics in Antiquity: A Brief Cultural History

Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the last meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Charles Stocking for his talk, titled “Mind, Body, and Athletics in Antiquity: A Brief Cultural History”. As part of a general understanding in Classics, mind/body dualism is largely classified… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside | Body, Mind, Spirit, and Soul: Comparative Semantics

Written by Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the December 7, 2020, meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar, in particular, Professor Lisa Raphals (this seminar series’ organizer) for her talk: “Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit: Comparative Semantics.” Raphals presented work from her current project, a comparative study of mind, body, spirit, and… Read more

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CHS Visiting Artist | Georgios Xenos

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. Georgios Xenos is painter and sculptor. He was born in Athens in 1953 and studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts- Section des Arts Plastiques in Paris… Read more

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Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes

Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth Revised by the Seven Against Thebes Heroization team (Hélène Emeriaud, Kelly Lambert, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Keith DeStone) The Acropolis of Thebes, in which stand altars and images of various divinities. A large gathering of citizens of Thebes. Enter Eteokles with attendants. Eteokles Men of Kadmos’s city [polis], he who guards from the stern the concerns of the State and guides… Read more

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2020 Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies | Nikos Tsivikis

An Early End of Antiquity in Roman Provincial Greece: Pagans and Christians in the wake of the earthquake in Messene in 365 CE What did it mean to live in a Roman provincial city of the Peloponnese in the middle of the 4th century? How did the Constantinian ‘revolution’ affect the lives and ideas of people who resided equally far away from the old capital of Rome and the new… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University | Holism, Sympathy, and Organism in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy

Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the fourth meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Brooke Holmes for her talk, titled “Holism, Sympathy, and Organism in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy.” Holmes’s presentation was part of a larger book project she is working on… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Michael Puett, Harvard University | Souls, Spirits, and Other Stuff: Thinking about the Mind and Body from a Comparative Perspective

Written by Alba Curry and Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the third meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Michael Puett for his talk, titled “Souls, Spirits, and Other Stuff: Thinking about the Mind and Body from a Comparative Perspective.” Puett began by noting that… Read more