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Fellowship Application primary

Fellowship Application Information 2011-12 The application for 2011-12 is now closed. Please check back in August 2011 for information about the next application cycle. The Center for Hellenic Studies offers fellowships to scholars working on the ancient Greek world in all its varieties. The most eligible fields of research include archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, literary criticism, philology, philosophy, pedagogical applications, reception, and interdisciplinary studies. All fellows, regardless… Read more

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Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines… Read more

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About Us – Landing Page

<p><img src=”http://atlas.chs.harvard.edu/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1″ mce_src=”http://atlas.chs.harvard.edu/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1″ style=”border:0″ mce_style=”border:0″ alt=”” /></p> ABOUT THE CENTER Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, located in Washington DC, was founded by means of an endowment made “exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to rediscover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks.” This humanistic vision remains the driving force of the Center for Hellenic Studies. Read more

Women & Property in Ancient Near Eastern & Mediterranean Societies: Contributors

Contributors Annalisa Azzoni is assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University. Her main field of research is in Aramaic texts andlanguage. She is currently preparing for publication a book entitled The Private Life of Women in Persian Egypt. Betsy Bryan is Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the Johns Hopkins University. She has published widely on the history and art of the New Kingdom.She currently directs… Read more

Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies: Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the Center for Hellenic Studies for its generous hospitality in hosting the conference from which this volume originated. We are grateful to all its staff for their kind assistance, and especially the director, Gregory Nagy, and Jennifer Reilly the programs officer.  We take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of three respondents to the papers given at the conference: Peggy Day (University of Winnipeg),… Read more