The 146th annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the APA) wrapped up on Sunday, January 11 in New Orleans. Center Director Gregory Nagy and Director of IT and Publications Leonard Muellner attended. CHS team members Temple Wright, Lanah Koelle, Jill Robbins, Allie Marbry, Claudia Filos, and Robin Olson were also on hand, representing… Read more
The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to the ways in which these performance domains informed each other over time reveals a shifting dynamic of competition and emulation among rhapsodes, actors, and orators that shaped their texts and their crafts. A diachronic analysis of this… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 14 Ιανουαρίου, 2015 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Φαντασία και ορθός λόγος από τον Καντ στον Χάιντεγκερ: μια φιλοσοφική διαδρομή» Κεντρική Ομιλήτρια: Γκόλφω Μαγγίνη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας, Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων Συνομιλητής: Κώστας Πολιάς, Διδάκτορας, Τμήμα Θεωρίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης, Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Fantasy and rationality from Kant to Heidegger: a philosophical journey” Lecturer: Golfo Maggini, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, University of Ioannina Respondent: Kostas Polias, Ph.D., Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center… Read more
In antiquity, the story of the failed assault of the Seven against Thebes ranked second only to the Trojan War. But whereas the latter was immortalized by Homer’s Iliad, the account of the former in the epic Thebais survives only in fragments preserved in later authors. The same is true of the Oedipodeia and Epigoni, which dealt respectively with events leading up to the Seven’s campaign and with the successful assault on the city in the… Read more
Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato’s most self-referential dialogue, and Plato’s reference to four Muses in Phaedrus 259c–d is read as a hint at the “ingredients” of philosophical discourse, which turns out to be a form of provocatively old-fashioned mousikê. Andrea Capra maintains that Socrates’s conversion to “demotic”—as opposed to metaphorical—music… Read more
AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting | January 8-11, 2015, New Orleans, LA Join us at the CHS’ booth at the 2015 AIA and SCS Joint Meeting! Stop by to learn more about our publications (in print and online), the Center’s programs and symposiums that happen all year round. The 2015 Joint Meeting will take place January 8 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA. For more information on the program and registration process, visit the Society… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth… Read more
The Theban Epics, by Malcolm Davies The CHS is happy to announce the publication of The Theban Epics by Malcolm Davies through Harvard University Press. In antiquity, the story of the failed assault of the Seven against Thebes ranked second only to the Trojan War. But whereas the latter was immortalized by Homer’s Iliad, the account of the former in the epic Thebais survives only in fragments preserved in later authors. The same… Read more
Teaching Internships in Greece July 16-August 1, 2015 The CHS offers the opportunity for up to three Harvard University undergraduate students to work as teaching fellows (TFs) from July 15-August 1, 2015 and gain teaching experience alongside a professor from Harvard University in the High School Summer Program (HSSP). The TFs will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills, and moreover, to coordinate, guide, and support high school students with little… Read more
