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CHS Visiting Artist | Chas LiBretto, Writer and Performer at the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study

This week, Chas LiBretto, writer and performer at the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently LiBretto is developing a musical-play called Helen and Her Double, which will be an adaptation or ‘sequel’ to Euripides’ play, Helen. Continuing the story of this play, LiBretto will explore the ways in which Helen had to pick up the pieces of her life after… Read more

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Join us for the fifth International Scholars’ Symposium on Sports, Society and Culture!

To Bring Back Victory: Local and Global Aspects of Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics Sumbissions deadline: May 15, 2016 Online Application and Contact Information The International Olympic Academy (IOA), in cooperation with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is organizing the Fifth International Scholars’ Symposium in the “Sports, Society, and Culture” series in Ancient Olympia, July 9–13, 2016. As in previous years, the Symposium… Read more

Programs & Events News

Hour 25 Celebrates the “Heroization” of Euripides’ Medea

The Medea “Heroization” Workshop held at CHS, April 7–8 In 2014 members of Hour 25 shared a revised translation of Sophocles’ Antigone that matches and complements the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation as used in HeroesX. Since then, community members have been using this “heroized” translation of Antigone to reach out to high school students in the US and abroad through through the medium of performance. This year Hour 25 members… Read more

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CHS GR Event: Despina Nazou, “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century”

CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., in Kranidi for the following lecture: “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century” Lecturer: Despina Nazou, Social Anthropologist – Lecturer/Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean Respondent: Andreas Nikolovgenis, Architecture, M.Arch II, Harvard GSD The event will take place at the Lecture’s Hall of the General Lyceum… Read more

Publications

Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming 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… Read more

Publications

Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming 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… Read more

Programs & Events News

CHS Visiting Scholar | Rhodes Pinto, PHD in Classics at the University of Cambridge

  This week, Dr. Rhodes Pinto, Postgraduate in Classics at the University of Cambridge, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. CurrentlyDr. Pinto works on issues of physics, metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and theology within ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is particularly interested in motion, a topic that cuts across all of these areas, and is in the process of writing a book on the treatment of motion in Presocratic… Read more