The Center for Hellenic Studies supports scholars and their research with a variety of configurations. All fellows receive an appointment for at least one academic year. Fellows receive varying levels of support and may reside at the Center for a term up to 17 weeks, depending on the scope and needs of their proposed projects. For more information about their research, see the CHS Research Bulletin. 2016 Fall Term Fellows Joachim… Read more
Gregory Nagy of Harvard University will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion about Sappho’s Song 44 and about his postings on Classical Inquiries. The event takes place on Tuesday, September 6 at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Visit the Hour 25 website for the live stream event or watch and join the live chat on YouTube. On Song 44 The process… Read more
Listen to our latest podcast with CHS author Malcolm Davies on his recent publication, The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed. Read more
Listen to our latest podcast with CHS author Malcolm Davies on his recent publication, The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed. Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad rhapsody 8 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. I.08.002 tagging: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ occurrences of terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’: I.01.419, I.02.478, I.02.781, I.08.002, I.11.773, I.12.252, I.16.232, I.24.529 anchor comment at I.08.002: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ This compound noun terpi-kéraunos, interpreted here as ‘he whose bolt strikes’, is an epithet that applies exclusively to Zeus: a… Read more
In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad rhapsody 8 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. I.08.002 tagging: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ occurrences of terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’: I.01.419, I.02.478, I.02.781, I.08.002, I.11.773, I.12.252, I.16.232, I.24.529 anchor comment at I.08.002: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ This compound noun terpi-kéraunos, interpreted here as ‘he whose bolt strikes’, is an epithet that applies exclusively to Zeus: a parallel… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and Information… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a… Read more
