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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

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The MASt@CHS project

Written by Rachele Pierini Hosted by the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, MASt is a new project aiming to boost discussion and debate among specialists on topics and problems in Bronze Age Aegean studies and then to disseminate the latest results to the wider audience of classicists. To achieve this, the MASt project has designed a twofold strategy: specialist seminars up to 20 participants and substantial reports on the online… Read more

Looting and Faking

Theodore Nash The discipline of Classics, as the study of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions, is characterised at its best by a remarkable methodological breadth. Archaeologists, philologists, and historians (each a heterogenous group in its own right) are able to ask complex questions of rich datasets, with especially exciting opportunities when they overlap. Nowhere is this overlap more literal than when texts are themselves preserved on… Read more

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Athena among the Phaeacians

Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC [This lecture was presented on April 29, 2015 at the Conference Room of the Athens Archaeological Society. It was sponsored by Center for Odyssean Studies and is made available here by their permission. Click here to download a PDF of the handout that was distributed at the lecture.] In Book 13 of the Odyssey the Phaeacians bring a sleeping Odysseus to the shores… Read more

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Diomède et la détresse de Nestor

[UFMG] [This article was originally published in Phaos, volume 4, pp. 5-38 (2004). In this online version, the original page-numbers are indicated within braces (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{5|6}” indicates where p. 5 of the original article ends and p. 6 begins. ] Resumo: Os primeiros sinais explícitos na Ilíada do cumprimento da promessa de Zeus à Tétis – o raio lançado aos Aqueus e depois diante do carro… Read more

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Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt

[This essay was originally published in Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian , ed. Ewen Bowie, 109–122. Trends in Classics 59. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. It is published here with permission of de Gruyter. In this online edition, the original page numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{109|110}” indicates where p. 109 of the print edition ends and p. 110 begins.] [… Read more

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Oral Traditions, Written Texts, and Questions of Authorship

[Originally published in The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion, ed. Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis, 59-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. In this online version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within curly brackets (“{“ and “}”). For example, {69|70} indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look… Read more

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Nourriture(s) dans l’Odyssée: fruits, légumes et les oies de Pénélope

FALE-UFMG [This article was originally published 2009 in Nuntius antiquus, vol. 4, 162-180. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within curly brackets in this version: for example, {162|163} marks where p. 162 stops and p. 163 begins. The article appears here by courtesy of the author.] RESUMO: Este artigo apresenta e comenta três tipos de comida possível (as frutas, os legumes e os gansos de Penélope) que na… Read more