The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece mourns the death of Dimitris Maronitis, an inspired teacher and friend. Dimitris Maronitis taught us Homer and a wide range of Greek authors, ancient and modern. He worked with the Center on several projects since its beginning in 2008. Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, shared a few words: It is for me a deep personal sorrow to learn… Read more
~A guest post by CHS interns Doug Hill and Drew Latimer~ The National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C. is hosting an exhibit featuring artifacts from over 3,000 years of Greek culture. Though the exhibit is titled THE GREEKS: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great, the earliest artifacts on display come from the prehistoric period, long before the bronze age in which the Homeric heroes fought and died, and the… Read more
~A guest post by CHS interns Doug Hill and Drew Latimer~ The National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C. is hosting an exhibit featuring artifacts from over 3,000 years of Greek culture. Though the exhibit is titled THE GREEKS: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great, the earliest artifacts on display come from the prehistoric period, long before the bronze age in which the Homeric heroes fought and died, and the… Read more
Grave A, Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grave-Circle-A-Mycenae.jpg Janet M. Ozsolak, a member of the Hour 25 and Kleos@CHS editorial team, had the opportunity to travel to Greece along with Harvard Alumni Association’s travel-study program led by Gregory Nagy. In a recent posting on Hour 25, Janet Ozsolak shares her impressions from her visit to Nafplio, Argos and Mycenea and photos from her travels. Read more
Dates: July 22-23, 2016 Application Deadline: July 13 This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the Athenians developed and practiced during the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. No prior… Read more
Dates: July 22-23, 2016 Application Deadline: July 13 This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the Athenians developed and practiced during the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. No prior knowledge… Read more
It may seem odd to devote an entire book, however short, to a lost epic of which hardly any fragments (as normally defined) survive. The existence of a late prose summary of the epic’s contents hardly dispels that oddness. One (rather long) word may supply justification: Neoanalysis. This once influential theory held that motifs and episodes in the Iliad derive from the Aethiopis, called thus after an Ethiopian prince who allied with… Read more
Inscribed some time after 264 BCE, the Parian Marble offers a chronological list of events with an exceptional emphasis on literary matters. Literary History in the Parian Marble explores the literary and historiographical qualities of the inscription, the genre to which it belongs, and the emerging patterns of time. Endorsing the hypothesis that the inscription was originally displayed at a Parian shrine honoring Archilochus, Andrea Rotstein argues that literary history was one of its… Read more
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor This 1983 book of Jenny Strauss Clay, The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, is such an encounter. She wrote it in an era when the majority of Classicists responded to the methodology of Milman Parry and Albert Lord by splitting into two mutually exclusive schools of thought, with one side assuming… Read more
