Online Application FAQ Before you start your online Fellowship application, we recommend that you review this page, which will be updated frequently. Last update October 19, 2009. Application Do I have to complete my application online? Can I mail you a paper copy? All those interested in applying for a Fellowship must do so electronically. The application and the recommendation letters must be submitted electronically. Support for the online… Read more
Classics in Undergraduate Liberal Education A study conducted by the Center for Hellenic Studies, in conjunction with the Teagle Foundation’s The Disciplines and Undergraduate Education Initiative The Center for Hellenic Studies has recently completed a fifteen-month study on classics and undergraduate liberal education. This project is one of six examining the relationship between major courses of study and the aims of liberal education as part of a Teagle Foundation initiative… Read more
[The printed version is published in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (ed. R. D. Woodard; Cambridge University Press 2007) 52–82. See also the companion piece, “Lyric and Greek Myth,” pages 19–51 of the same volume. For abbreviations like PH, HC, etc., see the Bibliography. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {52|53} marks where p. 52 stops and p. 53… Read more
[[First published in ΙΜΕΡΟΣ 5.1 (2005) 311-317.]] To refer to this essay, please cite it in this way: G. Nagy, “An Apobatic Moment for Achilles as Athlete at the Festival of the Panathenaia,” https://chs.harvard.edu/publications, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, 2009 This presentation focuses on two Black Figure paintings, both dated around 510 BCE, that depict the athletic event of the apobatōn agōn, which means ‘contest of the… Read more
Jørgen Mejer I would like to thank Henriette for sharing my words with you today: for allowing me to express, in my not always comprehensible idiomatic American English, deep sorrow at Jørgen’s untimely death, and profound thanks for his remarkable life. As soon as Henriette phoned me at mid-day on Monday, which was Labor Day in the US, to tell me that Jørgen had suddenly departed from our midst, I… Read more
