CHS 2009 Graduate Summer Seminar tragic pathos: body and mind in Greek tragedy June 22-July 6, 2009 This summer graduate seminar at the CHS focuses on how and why the experience of pathos is central to Greek tragedy, with particular attention to the interconnection between body and mind. The seminar combines close readings of two extant tragedies (Sophokles’ Philoktetes and Euripides’ Hekuba), one comedy (Aristophanes’ Frogs), and… Read more
The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, Greece 2010 The application for 2010 has closed. May 24 – July 25, 2010 Overview | Application Information | Detailed Internship Descriptions | Modern Greek Language Component | Faculty OVERVIEW The Center for Hellenic Studies Summer Internship Program offers Harvard students the opportunity to spend the summer living and working in Nafplion, Greece. Nafplion was the first capital… Read more
CORHALIE CONFERENCES AND E-WORKShop body copy sidebar material… Read more
Lexington Books The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with Lexington Books, which publishes “Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Series.” Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium, B.C., to the present – from the Archaic and Classical periods to today.The aim is to enhance perspectives… Read more
The Foundation for the Hellenic World The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with The Foundation for the Hellenic World, a not-for-profit cultural institution based in Athens, Greece. The Foundation uses state-of-the-art, cutting-edge information and computer technology in its pursuit of the research, awareness and understanding of Hellenic history and culture. Visit The Foundation for the Hellenic World… Read more
The Stoa Consortium The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with The Stoa Consortium, a leader in refereeing electronic scholarly publications in the humanities and developing new models of scholarly collaboration. Along with the Stoa Consortium, the Center enthusiastically promotes such models of electronic publication. The CHS offers to contributors mutually non-exclusive rights of electronic publication of all material on the web site. That… Read more
The Milman Parry Collection The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature is the largest single repository of South Slavic heroic song in the world. It comprises the following separate collections. All of these are currently housed in Harvard University’s Widener Library, Room C: 1. The texts and recordings of oral literature, including epic, lyric songs, and ballads, some stories, and conversations with singers and others,… Read more
External Resources for Research in the Classics Please visit the following links for more information about The Center for Hellenic Studies, CHS affiliates, and other useful Hellenic and Classical Studies websites. Regional Organizations American Classical League American Philological Association AAH Association of Ancient Historians AIA Archaeological Institute of America… Read more
Collaboration The Center For Hellenic Studies collaborates with several partners to promote Hellenic Studies and the electronic publication of scholarly works. Click on the links following each overview to read more about CHS partners. The Milman Parry Collection The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature is the largest single repository of South Slavic heroic song in the world. It comprises the following separate collections. All of… Read more
Lecture Four Champions of dikê (justice) A) Odyssey xix: “Lady;” answered Odysseus, “who on the face of the whole earth can dare to chide with you? Your fame [kleos] reaches the firmament of heaven itself; you are like some blameless king, who upholds righteousness [= good dikê], as the monarch over a great and valiant nation: the earth yields its wheat and barley, the trees… Read more
