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CHS Online Open House | “Beautiful Bodies or Beautiful Minds: Disability Studies in Homer” with Joel Christensen
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University, Department of Classics, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion about Disability in Homer on Thursday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
CHS Online Open House | “Beautiful Bodies or Beautiful Minds: Disability Studies in Homer” with Joel Christensen
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University, Department of Classics, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion about Disability in Homer on Thursday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | The Tears of Achilles
“In an epic text, how were poets able to represent emotion? How can we understand today their way of speaking? Did Achilles “copy” the behavior of warriors from those distant times? Or might it be the reverse: did the epic influence certain real behaviors?” This month’s Book Club selection is taken from Hélène Monsacré: The Tears of Achilles, newly available online at CHS in an English translation. Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | The Tears of Achilles
“In an epic text, how were poets able to represent emotion? How can we understand today their way of speaking? Did Achilles “copy” the behavior of warriors from those distant times? Or might it be the reverse: did the epic influence certain real behaviors?” This month’s Book Club selection is taken from Hélène Monsacré: The Tears of Achilles, newly available online at CHS in an English translation. Read more
CHS Dialogue with Gregory Nagy | Troezen, Phaedra and Hippolytus, and the Bacchae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlQCX8FcBw… Read more
Antigone in the Harvard Stadium
Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles’ Antigone! This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 p.m. on April 29 in Harvard Stadium. Read more
CHS dialogue with Gregory Nagy | Oedipus and his cults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4XfgdRtes… Read more
Meet the 2018-19 Fellows in Hellenic Studies
The CHS is pleased to announce the 2018-19 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship program encourages research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece. Read more
CHS Online Open House | Richard P. Martin on Heroine Cult and Tragedy
Richard Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion on heroine cult and tragedy, with special reference to the Medea of Euripides. Read more