“LITERATURE AS PERFORMANCE” Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning are co-organizing a three-day conference (July 5-7) devoted to “Literature As Performance.” The conference will take place at Athens, Word and Art Auditorium, Book’s Arcade (Arsakeio Megaro – Pesmatzoglou 5, Athens) Read more
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours Gregory Nagy Harvard University Press Available July 2013 The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores what it means to be human today by studying what it meant to be a hero in ancient Greek times. Readers will experience, in English translation, some of the most beautiful works of ancient Greek literature and song-making spanning over… Read more
We are pleased to share the following links to scholarship, organizations, and resources that might be of interest to readers of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy (available July 2013). This text is also available online through an associated MOOC. Launched on March 13th and accepting new participants through late July, The Ancient Greek Hero is a free, open access course offered through edX… Read more
iMOUSEION and the CHS are joint sponsors of Lectures d’Homère, an international, interdisciplinary workshop on Homeric epic to be held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France on June 4-5. The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey have been studied for thousands of years, and much progress has been made regarding our understanding of their dating, composition, and transmission. Yet important questions remain open. While philology has been and will remain a primary field of inquiry for… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 8 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Courtly Titles and Political Control in the Palaeologan Era” Lecturer: Demetrios Kyritses, Assistant Professor of Byzantine History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete Respondent: Dr. Anastasia Kontogiannopoulou, Byzantinist, Associate Researcher at the Research Centre for Medieval and Modern Hellenism, Athens Academy The Events Series 2013 is organized in cooperation with the… Read more
In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus’s Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, and—above all—the wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library. A text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost… Read more
Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable duration and territorial extent, the Byzantine and the Ottoman. The essays offer a diachronic and comparative account that spans the medieval and early modern periods and reaches into the nineteenth century. Methodologically… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 8 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Church and Politics in Greece: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias, 1828-1831” Lecturer: Emmanuel G. Chalkiadakis, Postdoctoral in History, University of Oxford, Instructor in Ecclesiastical History and the History of Modern Hellenism, Ecclesiastical Academy of Heraklion, Crete Respondent: Konstantinos Manikas, Assistant Professor of the History of Greek Ecclesia, Department of Theology, Theological… Read more
In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the controversy that resulted, Joel Kalvesmaki shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbolism provided the impetus for this theology of arithmetic, and describes the ways in which gnosticizing groups attempted to engage both the Platonist and Christian traditions. He explores the rich variety… Read more
Steering Song by Kevin McGrath LIKE a boat within another hull In which we oblivious rest, Unaware of our voyage or Destination of the bound vessel. A lioness walks the deck unseen And the captain is a captive, On the mast a vine springs Between untruth and truth we sail. Concealed by the rain we are… Read more
