"It was exciting to watch the exhibition come together, with artworks arriving from museums and private collections from all over Greece and Europe, and everyone at the museum was very happy to celebrate the opening of the exhibition on June 19." Read more
"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
The seminar will introduce participants to the oral origins of Homeric poetry, and to the historical transmission of the Homeric poems. Read more
This series of galleries attempts to illustrate each Hour with visual art. Read more
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
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
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, 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
“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
