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Coming Soon from the Hellenic Studies Series | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin

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

Coming Soon from the Hellenic Studies Series | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin

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

Forthcoming from Gregory Nagy | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now

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

Forthcoming from Gregory Nagy | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now

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

Brill launches major new dictionary of Ancient Greek online

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

Internships in Greece | CHS interns talk about their experience

Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National… Read more

Internships in Greece | CHS interns talk about their experience

Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National Gallery,… Read more

Visit of the Center for Hellenic Studies Team, Harvard University to the National Library of Greece

VISIT OF THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES TEAM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY TO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE Advancing collaboration between the National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (CHS), Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center in Washington and Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard, and Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for… Read more