The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to express their thanks and appreciation to all those who participated in this summer’s Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seminar. This year’s participants worked their way through 18 dramas written by Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, as well as excerpts from Sappho, Herodotus, Bacchylides, and the Partheneion as… Read more
Since early June, I have been enjoying the enriching experience of a summer internship at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, DC. On a daily basis I engage with visiting scholars, research fellows, staff members, and other undergraduates, and I quickly became familiar with two questions: 1) Why Classics? and 2) What are your post-grad plans? The answers to both of these unfolded almost serendipitously as… Read more
Since early June, I have been enjoying the enriching experience of a summer internship at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, DC. On a daily basis I engage with visiting scholars, research fellows, staff members, and other undergraduates, and I quickly became familiar with two questions: 1) Why Classics? and 2) What are your post-grad plans? The answers to both of these unfolded almost serendipitously as… Read more
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin as the latest installment of the Hellenic Studies Series, available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. 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… Read more
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin as the latest installment of the Hellenic Studies Series, available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. 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… Read more
I have had the pleasure of spending the past two months here in Washington, DC working as a curricular development summer intern at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS). I have come to know scholars, staff members, and other undergraduates who have all made their way to CHS in order to connect and interact with the classical world. The environment in which I was raised instilled… Read more
I have had the pleasure of spending the past two months here in Washington, DC working as a curricular development summer intern at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS). I have come to know scholars, staff members, and other undergraduates who have all made their way to CHS in order to connect and interact with the classical world. The environment in which I was raised instilled a sense… Read more
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamiliar for something familiar, then metonymy can be seen as a… Read more
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamiliar for something familiar, then metonymy can be seen as a connecting… Read more
Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 27 July 2015 The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online is now available. Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has launched a cutting-edge new dictionary for the study of Ancient Greek on its online dictionaries platform. Franco Montanari’s Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the most modern and complete dictionary for the study of Ancient Greek currently on the market. Based on the… Read more
