We are pleased to welcome Susan T. Edmunds for our next Open House discussion, which will be about weaving. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 24, at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded. Her article, Picturing Homeric Weaving, is available at the CHS website. For the live stream event, other resources related to this event and for a discussion with community… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “The universality of Great Alexander’s myth in space and time” Lecturer: Maria Kampouri-Vamvoukou, Professor, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Respondent: Vangelis Maladakis, Doctor in Byzantine Archaeology The event will take place at the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplio. Read more
Digital Literacies for the Ancient World A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016 Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016 Guidelines: https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386 This volume of Classics@, an open-access journal of the Center for… Read more
Digital Literacies for the Ancient World A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016 Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016 Guidelines: https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386 This volume of Classics@, an open-access journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies, aims to explore… Read more
Kyle P. Johnson Luke Hollis The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) has just been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer of Code program for 2016. Through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), post-secondary students aged 18 and older spend their summer learning to code while working for a mentor organization. Over the last 11 years, over 11,000 students have participated in… Read more
Kyle P. Johnson Luke Hollis The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) has just been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer of Code program for 2016. Through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), post-secondary students aged 18 and older spend their summer learning to code while working for a mentor organization. Over the last 11 years, over 11,000 students have participated in creating… Read more
The CHS would like to announce the Summer Abroad interns for 2016: Cultural Internship Program – Nafplio, Greece Fougaro, Anthos Library Yanni Metaxas, Boston University, 2017 Christina Vouvaki, Ionion University, 2019 Archaeological Museum of Nafplio Charoula-Maria Fotiadou, University of Ioannina, 2017 Luke Kelly, Harvard University, 2019 Europe Direct Samantha Garin, Harvard University, 2017 Alexandros Theodoridis, Democritus University of Thrace, 2016 Municipal Organization of Culture, Environment,… Read more
Detail of a relief depicting the “Apotheosis of Homer,” attributed to Archelaos of Priene, ca. 225 BCE–205 BCE. In the British Museum. Photo, Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. CHS Director Gregory Nagy recently participated in a panel discussion at the National Gallery of Art with researcher Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard University). The focus of their talk was a bronze head currently on display at the Museum of… Read more
Detail of a relief depicting the “Apotheosis of Homer,” attributed to Archelaos of Priene, ca. 225 BCE–205 BCE. In the British Museum. Photo, Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. CHS Director Gregory Nagy recently participated in a panel discussion at the National Gallery of Art with researcher Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard University). The focus of their talk was a bronze head currently on display at the Museum of Fine… Read more
