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Ephebe’s Journey IV | The Philosopher as Leader

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

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Ephebe’s Journey IV | The Philosopher as Leader

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

Hellenic Studies Series

The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed

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

Hellenic Studies Series

Literary History in the Parian Marble

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

Publications

Rowman and Littlefield | The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in The Odyssey

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

Publications

Rowman and Littlefield | The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in The Odyssey

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

CHS Learning Module, News

Video Discussion—Hammering A Nail With A Nail: Reading Collections of Ancient Greek Proverbs, with Joel Christensen

We were pleased to welcome Joel Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio/Brandeis University) for a discussion about ancient Greek proverbs, which was recorded. Joel Christensen prepared several blog posts for the community members to focus. Paroimiai: Proverbs from Ancient Greece to Star Trek A Selection of Proverbs “Two Ears, One Mouth”: Hunting a Proverb from Zeno… Read more

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2016 CHS Summer Internship Program in Nafplio

The Summer Internship Program in Nafplio, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded on Wednesday, July 6. The students, all receiving a scholarship from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Charoula – Maria Fotiadou (University of Ioannina) and Luke Kelly (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio, Theodora Prassa (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Evanthea Hammer (Georgetown) in the National Gallery, Nafplio Annex, Alexandros Theodoridis… Read more

CHS Learning Module

Classical Inquiries | Things noted during eight days of travel-study in Greece, 2016.06.10–18

In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining the site, I would offer a separate list of… Read more

CHS Learning Module, News

Classical Inquiries | Things noted during eight days of travel-study in Greece, 2016.06.10–18

In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining the site, I would offer a separate list of… Read more