We are pleased to welcome Alexander Hollmann (University of Washington) for our next Open House discussion, which will be about Herodotus. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 10, at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. His book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories, is available at the CHS website. You can watch this discussion live in the… Read more
We are pleased to announce the online publication of A Californian Hymn to Homer, edited by Timothy Pepper, for free on the CHS website. The book is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways… Read more
We are pleased to announce the online publication of A Californian Hymn to Homer, edited by Timothy Pepper, for free on the CHS website. The book is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of… Read more
Two of Professor Nagy’s most recent articles have become available under the online publication Short Writings Volume IV, the fourth volume in a series of online anthologies, all available online for free at the CHS website. “Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians” This essay discusses the term logioi, as this is encountered in all the Herodotean contexts. Nagy argues that logioi is a term referring… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Dates: June 1-July 31, 2016 Deadline for Applications: April 1, 2016 Deadline for Recommendations: April 8, 2016 As part of its mission of bringing together a variety of research interests centered on Hellenic civilization and sharing them with a wider audience, the Center for Hellenic Studies publishes books, journals, proceedings of colloquia, discussions, databases, lectures, and other materials, both online and in print. The Center for… Read more
Head of a Bearded God, first century BC, bronze, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Today, February 25, at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, Gregory Nagy and Gloria Ferrari Pinney are holding a panel discussion on “A poet or a god: The Iconography of Certain Bearded Male Bronzes.” This is… Read more
Head of a Bearded God, first century BC, bronze, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Today, February 25, at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, Gregory Nagy and Gloria Ferrari Pinney are holding a panel discussion on “A poet or a god: The Iconography of Certain Bearded Male Bronzes.” This is the… Read more
We are very pleased to announce the online publication of Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin on the CHS website. Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings (and much more). Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in 1968… Read more
