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Now Available Online | Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2, by Gregory Nagy

An online version of “Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2,” an essay published over 20 years ago in Classical World 87, is now available at the CHS website. In the 2015 edition, Gregory Nagy has added translations of the Latin and Greek and has provided additional observations. Nagy focuses his research on the key word mimesis, explaining how Horace highlights conceptions of mimesis through his… Read more

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Now Available Online | Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2, by Gregory Nagy

An online version of “Copies and Models in Horace Odes 4.1 and 4.2,” an essay published over 20 years ago in Classical World 87, is now available at the CHS website. In the 2015 edition, Gregory Nagy has added translations of the Latin and Greek and has provided additional observations. Nagy focuses his research on the key word mimesis, explaining how Horace highlights conceptions of mimesis through his poetry:… Read more

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CHS hosts a reception at the Annual AIA/SCS Meeting

The CHS will be at the AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco! You’re invited to the CHS Reception at the annual meeting which will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016,from 9 to 11pm. The address of the venue is: Union Square 14, Hilton San Francisco. Would you like to find out more about the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting? Visit the official webpage! We hope to see you there!… Read more

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Coming Soon Online | The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord

“Not only every Homerist, but every scholar wishing to understand the roots of culture will read it eagerly. It is a deep well, and a heady draft.”—Barry B. Powell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review We are very happy to announce the forthcoming online publication of The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord, for free at the CHS website. Long before writing was invented, people told stories… Read more

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Coming Soon Online | The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord

“Not only every Homerist, but every scholar wishing to understand the roots of culture will read it eagerly. It is a deep well, and a heady draft.”—Barry B. Powell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review We are very happy to announce the forthcoming online publication of The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord, for free at the CHS website. Long before writing was invented, people told stories and sang… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use across Genres

The study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language from its earliest beginnings. Among the first parts of speech to be distinguished in Greek scholarship were the σύνδεσμοι (“combiners”), which include the later category of particles. In the Renaissance, Matthaeus Devarius—a Greek scholar working in Rome—published a monograph on particles only sixteen years after Estienne’s Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and in the nineteenth… Read more

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Yearly Round-Up 2015 at the Center for Hellenic Studies

This past year has been filled with events and activities at both CHS campuses in Washington, DC and Nafplio, Greece, online discussions and dialogues in a friendly environment, and lots of additions on the CHS free online publications. Take a minute to explore with us the highlights of 2015 at CHS! Resources Free online publications Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory… Read more

CHS Learning Module

CHS Essentials | The Suffering of Heroes

With the fifth version of the HeroesX project opening on Jan. 6, we would like to reflect upon the hero and heroic tradition. In the featured video, Gregory Nagy talks about the suffering of heroes in an attempt to elaborate on the choice of violent ends for heroes by Greek tragedians. Gregory Nagy comments that “if the hero is larger than life—and he or she is—then… Read more

CHS Learning Module, News

CHS Essentials | The Suffering of Heroes

With the fifth version of the HeroesX project opening on Jan. 6, we would like to reflect upon the hero and heroic tradition. In the featured video, Gregory Nagy talks about the suffering of heroes in an attempt to elaborate on the choice of violent ends for heroes by Greek tragedians. Gregory Nagy comments that “if the hero is larger than life—and he or she is—then the… Read more