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Now Available Online – Dialoguing in Late Antiquity

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron is now available online on the CHS website! Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim to be records of actual public debates, and we know that… Read more

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News | Funding of Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region

We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive central government funding.” Ms Knutsson continued by saying that “the advance notice given of reduced central government funding for 2016 and… Read more

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News | Funding of Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region

We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive central government funding.” Ms Knutsson continued by saying that “the advance notice given of reduced central government funding for 2016 and 2017… Read more

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Hour 25: Continuing Content, Community, and Conversation

Hour 25 is a vibrant intellectual community that studies and creates open source content associated with and inspired by Gregory Nagy’s work on ancient Greek heroes. Drawing on the massive open online content (MOOC) known as HeroesX and in a collaborative partnership with the Center for Hellenic Studies, Hour 25 offers readers and scholars access to an evolving, informed conversation about ancient Greek literature that is based upon close reading… Read more

Publications

New CHS Publication – Plato's Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository imperative of philosophical argument. It is now common for mainstream classicists and philosophers to attribute vital importance to literary form… Read more

News, Publications

New CHS Publication – Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository imperative of philosophical argument. It is now common for mainstream classicists and philosophers to attribute vital importance to literary form in… Read more

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Live Webcast: December 2014 Research Symposium

Join us on Saturday, December 6 for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream will be available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with VLC Media Player or Quicktime 7. To connect via VLC, go to File > Open Network and paste the link into the URL field. For Quicktime 7, go to File > Open URL and paste in… Read more

CHS Learning Module, News

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours: Plato and Beyond

Registration is now open for Module 5 of the Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Hours 22-24), “Plato and Beyond”, on edX. HUM 2.5x, the fifth and final module in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, “Hours 22-24: Plato and Beyond” challenges the idea that Socrates was a hero, just as Plato’s Socrates himself challenges that same idea. And yet, as we will see from reading… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India

The central character of Divine Yet Human Epics is the developing conception of epic itself. Its story unfolds as the ancient Greek idea of epic originates with Pindar and Herodotus on the basis of the Iliad and Odyssey. While this notion eventually leads their Sanskrit counterparts, the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata, to be understood selectively in modern times, medieval readers Ānandavardhana and Rājaśekhara reveal distinctive features of these ancient Indian poems earlier in this exegetical tale. Shubha Pathak’s interpretative… Read more