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Recommendation FAQ

Recommendation FAQ If you are submitting a letter of reference for a fellowship applicant, we recommend that you read this page explaining the recommendation process before trying to submit your letter of reference. In the online fellowship application, an applicant has the opportunity to register up to three recommenders. The applicant who has asked you to submit a recommendation should register your name and e-mail address in his/her application. Read more

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

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