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CHS fellow Joshua Billings Receives Charles Goodwin Award of Merit
Congratulations to Joshua Billings, a current fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies, who has been awarded the 2015 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for his book Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2014). Joshua Billings (DPhil Oxford) is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Greek literature and philosophy and modern intellectual history, with… Read more
Donovan | Sapphographs
December 12, 2015 – October 2016 Fifteen large-scale, pigment prints on archival paper on exhibit in the main hall of the library Organized in cooperation with Govinda Gallery curated by Christopher Murray and M. Zoie Lafis Admission: Free Visiting hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm For groups larger than 4 persons, please call 202-745-4400 to make an appointment. Directions and Visitor Information Overview Inspired by… Read more
Kenchreai Field School 2016
The Center for Hellenic Studies and Sunoikisis announce the 2016 Archaeological Program at Kenchreai, the port of Corinth in southern Greece. Scholarship support will be awarded to applicants on the basis of merit. This four-week summer program introduces students to the archaeology, history and culture of Greece through participation in a field school and accompanying seminars and excursions. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, directed by Professor Joseph L. Read more
Now Available Online | Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception
The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need to broaden our investigation is urgent. Sappho must be revisited from several different perspectives. One is her surviving textual corpus… Read more
Now Available Online | Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception
The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need to broaden our investigation is urgent. Sappho must be revisited from several different perspectives. One is her surviving textual corpus and… Read more
SapphoFest 2015
The Center for Hellenic Studies, in association with Govinda Gallery, is pleased to announce SapphoFest 2015, three days of art and discussion celebrating the songs of Sappho, fifty years of Donovan's poetry and music, and Donovan's Sapphographs. Read more
Classical Inquiries | Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena
Detail from Attic krater attributed to the Brygos painter, 480-470 BCE. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel. “A diachronic as well as synchronic approach to the songmaking of Sappho” by Gregory Nagy In his posting Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena, Gregory Nagy argues that the art of Sappho’s songmaking can be viewed as an evolving medium through time. He offers his views in support of this argument. Read more