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Now Available Online – The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers

The CHS is pleased to announce that Tarik Wareh’s The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers is now available online on the CHS website. The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Michael Dafermos, “One hundred years of General Relativity: 1915 – 2015”

Please join us on Wednesday, December 17, at 7.00 p.m. in Nafplion for the following lecture: “One hundred years of General Relativity: 1915 – 2015” Lecturer: Michael Dafermos, Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, U.S.A. The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplion. The Events Series 2015 is organized in cooperation with the Municipalities… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont

This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy (the writings of Plato and Seneca in particular). Currently, he is working on a book entitled Sustainability, Complex Systems, and the… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont

This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy (the writings of Plato and Seneca in particular). Currently, he is working on a book entitled Sustainability, Complex Systems, and the… Read more

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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015»

Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 17 Δεκεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Princeton, ΗΠΑ Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Η σειρά εκδηλώσεων Events Series 2015 διοργανώνεται σε συνεργασία με τους Δήμους Ναυπλιέων, Άργους-Μυκηνών, Ερμιονίδας και Επιδαύρου. Παλαιό… Read more

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Now Available Online – Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars

Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of  Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks of the 5th century and to support this knowledge by evidence that will take the form of cataloguing. “The Greeks… Read more

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Live Now: December 2014 Research Symposium

Join us now for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream is 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 the link. Have… Read more

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Now Available Online – Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato

Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato, by Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré The CHS is pleased to announce the first ever publication of Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré’s 1920 dissertation Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato. This text offers an in-depth and enlightening analysis of the concept of τέχνη in Plato. Jeffré’s thesis was approved for publication but only two pages were published in 1922. This text is an edited combination of two handwritten manuscripts: one held… Read more

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Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOC multimedia annotations

The Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOCs with multimedia annotations (III Workshop internacional sobre Creación de MOOC con anotaciones multimedia) has published the pre-print versions of its proceedings from March 2014. The initiative that universities like Harvard, MIT and Stanford launched in 2012 with the edX platform for MOOCs generated numerous opportunities not only for university education but also for education in general all… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic

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 Plato, which they often explain in terms of rhetorical devices serving didactic goals. This study brings the disciplines of literary and classical studies… Read more