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Discussion Series: The Homeric Odyssey and the Cultivation of Justice

The Homeric Odyssey & the Cultivation of Justice Welcome to “Homeric Odyssey and the Cultivation of Justice”, an online lecture series organized and led by Professor Gregory Nagy, the current director of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D. C. In the creation of this project he has been actively assisted by Teaching Fellows who have taught with him the undergraduate Core Curriculum course “The Concept of the… Read more

Discussion Series: Homer’s Poetic Justice – Landing

Introduction Welcome to “Homer’s Poetic Justice”, an online lecture series organized and led by Professor Gregory Nagy, the current director of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D. C. In the creation of this project he has been actively assisted by Teaching Fellows who have taught with him the undergraduate Core Curriculum course “The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization.” “Homer’s Poetic Justice” is an exploration of… Read more

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Prospective Authors

Now Accepting Proposals: New Directions in Hellenic Studies Featuring scholarship on all aspects of ancient Greek culture and its interactions and reception, New Directions in Hellenic Studies brings together innovative work in philology, philosophy, history, science, technology, art, and archaeology. These monographs and collected volumes showcase emerging voices and twenty-first-century perspectives in their examination of Hellenic antiquity and its reception. Read more

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Publication Editorial Team

Publication Policies The Center for Hellenic Studies is committed to producing the highest quality publications. For that reason we have established an Editorial Board which reviews content, guidelines for the submission of proposals for both online and print publications, and specifications for preparation of content for publication. The CHS Editorial Team Senior Advisers: W. Robert Connor, Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Albert Henrichs, James O’Donnell, Bernd Seidensticker… Read more

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Homer Multitext – Landing

The Homer Multitext Project Editors: Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott Information Architects: Christopher Blackwell and Neel SmithCo-Editors: Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy The Homer Multitext project, the first of its kind in Homeric studies, seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framework is needed to account for the full reality of a complex medium of oral performance that… Read more

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Homer & the Papyri: Home

HOMER & THE PAPYRI Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is here published in a second electronic edition. The edition consists of a database of Homeric papyri published prior to the year 2004. Homer & the Papyri Editors and Advisors Editor in Chief: Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies Editor Emeritus: Dana F. Read more

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Browse Online Publications

Additional citation information is provided for items in the Hellenic Studies Series,  curated books, curated essays, and primary sources. This page features a full list of our online books, essays, and primary texts. The CHS also produces additional online research publications not listed here: Classics@ Online Journal features dynamic issues, each dedicated to a particular topic, often with guest editors, which provide an in-depth exploration of salient issues… Read more

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Hellenic Studies Series – List

Hellenic Studies Series Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, and Manuel Baumbach, editors, Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309).  Online edition of Hellenic Studies 2, originally published in 2004 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Bakker, Egbert J.,Pointing at the Past: From… Read more

Discussion Series: Athenian Law Lectures

Athenian Law Introduction “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context” features lectures by scholars and bulletin boards for discussion moderated by classicists. Until recently Athenian law was generally disdained as chaotic, dominated by rhetoric, and amateurish — especially when compared to Roman law. But in the last twenty years, Athenian law has become a topic of exciting new work bringing together legal, historical, anthropological, and literary research to shed light on… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Suzanne Alcock

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Susan E. Alcock, University of Michigan “Blocks of Memory: The Uses of Archaeology on the Uses of the Past.” This paper follows a path quite different from most treatments of Greek commemorative behavior during the early empire. It is heavily archaeological in its orientation. Its attention remains firmly on the rural sphere, bypassing the more clamourously familiar urban world of the period. And finally,… Read more