Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. to develop the upcoming year’s courses. They hold two 3-day planning seminars, one for the Greek course and another for the Latin course. The faculty also invite an expert in the subject area to participate in the seminars and to inform the reading of primary source materials. The course planning seminars also provide an… Read more
From the Editors of the Homer Multitext Dué, Casey, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Originally published in 2006 by University of Texas Press. Copyright, Casey Dué. Dué, Casey, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. Originally published in 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield as… Read more
Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD) Internship Fall Semester, 2014 Application Deadline: August 1, 2014 The Center for Hellenic Studies seeks an intern to assist the Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD) team for the fall semester of 2014. Note: The CHS also offers summer internships. Because the FCD intern will be assisting application processing for all CHS programs, he or she will be ineligible for any internship programs… Read more
July 9 – July 12, 2014 Ancient Olympia, Greece The International Olympic Academy (IOA), in cooperation with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is organizing the Third International Scholars’ Symposium on “Sports, Society, and Culture” in Ancient Olympia, on July 9-12, 2014. As in the past years, the Symposium will host scholars from around the world and bring together more than a hundred students and professors from Greek… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Senior Fellow: Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Chair of the Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy. He will begin his five-year appointment in the fall following the conclusion of Angelos Chaniotis’s term as a senior fellow. As leading scholars in major subdisciplines of the study of Ancient… Read more
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 many such debates did take place and continued to do so. Dialoguing in Late Antiquity takes up a challenge laid down by recent scholars… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., in Ligourio for the following lecture: “How near is our past? The heritage of the classical world in life and art” Lecturer: Vassileios Lambrinoudakis, Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chairman, The Committee for the Restoration of Epidaurus Monuments Respondent: Maria – Xeni Garezou, Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Archaeologist, Ministry of Culture and Sports Τhe talk will be… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη, 7 Μαΐου, 2014 στις 8:00 μ.μ., στο Λυγουριό στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Πόσο κοντά είναι το παρελθόν μας; Η κληρονομιά του κλασικού κόσμου στην ζωή και την τέχνη» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Βασίλειος Λαμπρινουδάκης, Ομότιμος Kαθηγητής Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Πρόεδρος Επιτροπής Συντήρησης Μνημείων Επιδαύρου Συνομιλήτρια: Μαρία-Ξένη Γαρέζου, Διδάκτωρ Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, Αρχαιολόγος Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στο Πνευματικό… Read more
On Thursday May 1st, at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard) will join members of Hour 25 for a live discussion and broadcast via Google Hangout. To join the live Q&A, visit the associated event page on Google+. Members of Hour 25 can leave questions and comments for Professor Nagy in advance on this thread in the Lyceum. You can watch the broadcast at the appointed day… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The use of Greek antiquity under German totalitarianism” Lecturer: Andreas Ioannides, Vice-Rector, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Art from the 19th century until the present, Department of the Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s… Read more
