CHS-AUTH 2018-2019 Fellows | Dimitra Karamitsou
"The academic assistance provided by my Supervisors from CHS and AUTH was precious and the year-long access to Harvard University’s online databases and resources proved really useful." Read more
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Homer Multitext Seminar at the CHS in Washington DC
The seminar will introduce participants to the oral origins of Homeric poetry, and to the historical transmission of the Homeric poems. Read more
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours through visual art
This series of galleries attempts to illustrate each Hour with visual art. Read more
An Africana Bloomsday
16 June 2019, 2:00 pm ET
Convened by Professor Carolivia Herron Sunday, June 16, 2019 2:00-5:00pm House A Howard University and the Center for Hellenic Studies celebrate James Joyce and epic literature with readings and dramatic presentations in conversation with Ulysses and Odysseus. The event will feature students enrolled in “Blacks in Antiquity,” a summer course offered by Professor Herron at Howard University. An international event, Bloomsday honors James Joyce’s revolutionary novel, Ulysses, on… Read more
2019 CHS DC Summer Internship Program | Meet the Digital Humanities Interns!
We are pleased to introduce our four Digital Humanities interns who are working for eight weeks in Washington, DC on the Free First Thousand Years of Greek project, a self-standing subset of the Open Greek and Latin Project and on Homer and the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. Read more
2019 CHS DC Summer Internship Program | Meet the Digital Humanities Interns!
We are pleased to introduce our four Digital Humanities interns who are working for eight weeks in Washington, DC on the Free First Thousand Years of Greek project, a self-standing subset of the Open Greek and Latin Project and on Homer and the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. Read more
The Cypria
The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot and contents. Malcolm Davies uses linguistic evidence from the available verbatim fragments, along with other considerations, to suggest that the Cypria was written after Homer and… Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | Apollodorus Library, Book 1
“Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.” Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | Apollodorus Library, Book 1
“Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.” Read more
An Africana Bloomsday
Howard University and the Center for Hellenic Studies celebrate James Joyce and epic literature with readings and dramatic presentations in conversation with Ulysses and Odysseus. The event will feature students enrolled in “Blacks in Antiquity,” a summer course offered by Professor Herron at Howard University. Read more