Past Conferences and Seminars The CHS presents a variety of conferences and collaborative events on an annual basis. The CHS seeks to support and develop new models and methods for academic conferences, the dissemination of research, and collaborative projects. Read the Conference Guidelines to learn more about proposing a conference at the CHS. 2010 Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium (March 27)… Read more
Originally published in 2006 by Ashgate Press. Copyright, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson this online edition appears by permission of the editor. Also available for purchase in print here. Read more
Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other… Read more
This 2008 “born digital” text is an online edition of a 2009 work published by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The 2009 print edition is available for purchase via Harvard University Press here. Read more
[This review was first published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65.] West’s book is most useful for researchers in the Classics and in Indo-European studies. I have produced two different and mutually complementary reviews of it, one for Classicists and one for Indo-Europeanists, with the collegial permission of the book-review editors of Classical Review and Indo-European Studies Bulletin. In the present review for IESB, I concentrate on the usefulness… Read more
Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preliminaries to Philostratus’s On Heroes by Casey Dué and Gregory Nagy Introduction Philostratus, On Heroes Glossary Select Bibliography Notes In Memoriam Adrienne Mamelian Berenson and Janice Hunter Aitken “Strength and dignity are her clothing… she opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.†(Proverbs 31:25–26)… Read more
[[This essay is an online version of an original printed version that appeared in The Brill Companion to Hesiod, ed. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and Ch. Tsagalis (Leiden 2009) 271–311. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{271|272}” indicates where p. 271 of the printed version ends and p. 272 begins.]] Introduction This presentation examines what is… Read more
