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The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach

[[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the first edition ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made… Read more

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Philosophical Fiction – Landing

Philosophical Fiction I. Books: Fourdraine, Leo. Socratica I: In Search of the Real Socrates (1.3MB PDF download).This fictional work takes the form of a Platonic dialogue in order to explore the the philosophy of Socrates. It is published by the Center for Hellenic Studies under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)  … Read more

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Other Fellows

OTHER FELLOWS CHS E.U. Fellow in Multi-Disciplinary Research/IT and Publications Ioanna Papadopoulou CHS Fellow in Ancient Greek Religion and its Reception Barbara Graziosi, University of Durham CHS Associates in Comparative Cultural Studies Dimiter Angelov, University of Birmingham Panagiota Batsaki, University of Cambridge Sahar Bazzaz, College of the Holy Cross Dimitris Kastritsis, University of St. AndrewsIlham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern UniversityAnna Stavrakopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki… Read more

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Sheila Murnaghan, Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey: Chapter 1

Chapter One: Recognition and the Return of Odysseus During their meeting in Book 13, Athena and Odysseus sit down together at the base of an olive tree and concoct the plot through which, imitating the story of a disguised god, he will defeat his enemies. This then becomes the plot, in a literary sense, of the second half of the poem, a plot shaped by the deployment of a divine strategy… Read more

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Sheila Murnaghan, Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey: Preface

Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey: preface to the 2nd edition This book is a study of how the plot of the Odyssey works. It represents an effort to uncover the particular significance in this poem of recognition, a plot device so common that it figures as one of Propp’s thirty-nine functions of the folktale and plays a key role, under the name of anagnorisis, in Aristotle’s analysis in the… Read more

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Internship Funding Sources 2010

Funding Sources for the CHS Summer Programs The two main funding options for the CHS summer programs this year are CHS funding and Rockefeller funding. When applying to CHS summer programs, students are also applying for funding through the CHS at the same time. However, the CHS still needs students to fill out a CARAT sheet with the OIP so that they will have the funding information for their records,… Read more