The following researchers received a visiting scholar grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies and will visit Washington, DC during the spring 2016 term. The award includes housing on the CHS campus in Washington, DC for six nights and travel support. For more information, view the program description. February Laura Jansen (Princeton University) Maria Kazanskaya (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Gonda… Read more
Harvard University [This review of Writing Homer. A study based on results from modern fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen (Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab; The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. 440 S. 16 Abb. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 4.) appeared in Gnomon 86 (2014) 97-101. The original pagination of the review will be indicated in this electronic version by way of brackets (“{” and “}”). For example,… Read more
The following videos are excerpts from other CHS video series that have been selected because of their succinct focus on a key concept. Each video explores its concept or topic in under 7 minutes, and they are made available in the order in which they are processed. Hesiod Human Sacrifice Fast Reading Horse Sacrifice in Ancient India Women and Property God and Humans Classics… Read more
[Originally printed in Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (ed. Phillip Mitsis and Christos Tsagalis; Trends in Classics vol. 7; Berlin and New York 2010) 153-167. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {153|154} marks where p. 153 stops and p. 154 begins.] 01) ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι, κάκ᾿ ἐλέγχεα, γαστέρες οἶον, ἴδμεν ψεύδεα… Read more
The mission of the CHS is to bring together a variety of research and teaching interests centering on Hellenic civilization in the widest sense of the term “Hellenic.” This concept encompasses the evolution of the Greek language and its culture as a central point of contact for all the different civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world. Interaction with foreign cultures, including the diffusion of Roman influence, is an integral part… Read more
For Taylor Acknowledgments This book contains ten essays that have been edited and revised—and in the case of the final one, substantially expanded for this collection. The essays have been arranged so as to indicate relations that suggested themselves as I reviewed the group. The first one, “Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought,” sets the stage for those that come after by introducing the basic theme of… Read more
[[This article was first published in 2008 in Archilochus and his Age II (ed. D. Katsonopoulou, I. Petropoulos, S. Katsarou) 259-265. The original pagination of the article will be indicated in this electronic version by way of curly brackets (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{259|260}” indicates where p. 259 of the printed article ends and p. 260 begins.]] In his pathfinding book, Archilochos Heros, Diskin Clay has questioned the applicability… Read more
Chapter 3. Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus [*] Franco Ferrari Università dell’Aquila On January 15, 1962, the remains of the Derveni Papyrus were unearthed from a cist grave in northern Greece. Anton Fackelmann, curator of the papyrus collection of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and the world’s leading expert in the handling of carbonized papyri, began work… Read more
A Comprehensive List of Online Short Writings by Gregory Nagy Listed In Alphabetical Order “Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity.” Forthcoming, in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, ed. Kimberley Patton, I.B. Tauris, 2013. Not for quotation or distribution. “The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction.” Expanded online edition of an article originally published in 2011 in Proceedings… Read more
[Originally published as Chapter 10 in Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, ed. R. Gagné and M. G. Hopman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 227-256. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{227|228}” indicates where p. 227 of the printed version ends and p. 228 begins.] Introduction My focus is on the Delian Maidens, as represented in the… Read more
