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
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
The Hour 25 Community is very pleased to welcome David Elmer of Harvard University to discuss ‘epainos and the Poetics of Consent in Homer’, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) on Thursday, November 20. Members of Hour 25 can start and continue the conversations associated with this event in this Lyceum thread. You can watch the discussion on the Google+ event page, or below:… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “A journey to the moon: Lucian’s True History and utopian novels in ancient Greek literature” Lecturer: Aristoula Georgiadou, Associate Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras Respondent: Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Lecturer, Department of Philology, University of Patras The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 19 Νοεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Ένα ταξίδι στη σελήνη: Τα Αληθή Διηγήματα του Λουκιανού και το ουτοπικό μυθιστόρημα στην Αρχαιοελληνική Γραμματεία» Κεντρική Ομιλήτρια: Αριστούλα Γεωργιάδου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Συνομιλήτρια: Κατερίνα Οικονομοπούλου, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Read more
This week Maria Schoina, Assistant Professor of English literature at the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will be staying at CHS and using the library. She is the author of Romantic Anglo-Italians: Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009). Currently, she is working on a project that “aims to develop the work which has been done so far on English… Read more
Heroes in Tragedy: A presentation and dialogue with Professor Gregory Nagy HeroesX participants living in the Greater Boston area and learners around the world are invited to participate in a dialogue session led by Professor Nagy on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. (EST). Be introduced to the joy of reading ancient literature, and to seeing those ancient themes reflected in the works of our own time. Incorporating materials from HeroesX… Read more
Summer Seminars 2015 Latin Literature from the Neronian Period Dates: June 6-9, 2015 Consultant: James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE Dates: June 11-14, 2015 Consultant: Hakan Tell (Dartmouth College) Overview Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C.* to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for… Read more
Summer Seminars 2015 Latin Literature from the Neronian Period Dates: June 6-9, 2015 Consultant: James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE Dates: June 11-14, 2015 Consultant: Hakan Tell (Dartmouth College) Overview Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C.* to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website. Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in the Yugoslavia of 1933–35. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry to further understand how… Read more
