The Hour 25 community is pleased to welcome Seemee Ali (Carthage College) for a CHS Open House discussion to be held on Thursday March 12 at 11a.m. EDT. The conversation, entitled ‘Eros and Cosmos: Approaching the Golden Cloud of Iliad 14′ will focus on the great seduction scene. To watch the event live, simply tune in to this blog post at the appropriate time (please note that daylight saving… Read more
ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΠΑΤΡΩΝ 4oς Πανελλαδικός Μαθητικός Διαγωνισμός Φιλοσοφικού Δοκιμίου ΔΙΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ 13/14 Μαρτίου 2015 Η ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ V: ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΕΧΝΗ ΤΕΛΕΤΗ ΒΡΑΒΕΥΣΗΣ 14 Μαρτίου 2015 Αιθουσα Τελετών του Πανεπιστημίου Κτήριο Διοίκησης ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ, 13 Μαρτίου 2015 Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη Παν/μίου Πατρών 15.30 – 18.00: παράλληλες συνεδρίες Υφολογικές έννοιες και υφολογική… Read more
The Hour 25 community is pleased to welcome Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University) for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Heroism, Charisma, and Legitimate Rule: a Dialogue with Max Weber’, to be held on Thursday, February 26 at 11:00 a.m. EST. We would also like to share the news that Nicolas Prevelakis was recently selected as the “Newsmaker of the Month” by the Greek embassy in Washington… Read more
Many community members have been reading Gregory Nagy’s latest commentary about God-Hero Antagonism in the in the Hippolytus of Euripides on the H24H Dialogues website. Below are some resources for additional study inspired by that post. Original texts: Hippolytus of Euripides in Greek on Perseus Phaedra of Seneca in Latin on Perseus Word Study: Results of search for Διὸς θυγάτηρ on Perseus Results of search for … Read more
We were delighted to catch up with CHS author Malcolm Davies at the SCS conference last month, where we had a fascinating chat with him about his new book, Theban Epics. The book is truly a remarkable piece of scholarly detective work, as Malcolm extracts an extraordinary amount of material and meaning from the few fragments that remain of the poems about the Theban wars. The Theban epics recount… Read more
Homeric Conversation, by Deborah Beck The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Homeric Conversation, by Deborah Beck on the CHS website. Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recognized types such as arrival, sacrifice, battle, and hospitality. Drawing on both linguistics and previous work on… Read more
Fair Use Week | February 23-27 Fair Use Week is an annual week-long event celebrating the important doctrines of fair use in the US. This event was first established at Harvard by Kyle Courtney, the Office for Scholarly Communication’s (OSC’s) Program Manager and Copyright Advisor. Now, it is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and is celebrated nationally. “Fair use and fair dealing are essential limitations and exceptions… Read more
Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, edited by Nino Luraghi and Susan E. Alcock The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, eds. Nino Luraghi and Susan E. Alcock, on the CHS website. The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Fantasy, a structural component of life, dreams, and fairytales” Lecturer: Alkistis Kontogianni, Professor, Chair, Department of Theater Studies, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplion. The event is organized in… Read more
