Με μεγάλη χαρά παραθέτουμε το ακόλουθο άρθρο της Μαίρης Αδαμοπούλου (ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, 1-2 Φεβρουαρίου 2014) στο οποίο ο Gregory Nagy μιλάει για τη νέα Σαπφώ και τον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα τραγούδια της συνθέτονταν καθώς παρουσιάζονταν δημοσίως. Η Σαπφώ και η αιώνια γοητεία της, Μαίρη Αδαμοπούλου, ΤΑ ΝΕΑ … Read more
The CHS Summer Internship Program invites students to work at the CHS in Washington, D.C. on projects related to Publications and Fellowships and Curricular Development from May 27-August 3, 2014. During their time at the CHS, interns will have access to the library resources and an opportunity to engage with the scholarly community. Interns will work approximately 270 hours over the course of the summer and receive $12.00… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “The concept of antiquity in Byzantine sculpture” Lecturer: Aristotelis Mentzos, Professor of Byzantine Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Respondent: Yiannis Theoharis, Archaeologist, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the Auditorium of the Argolid Chamber of Commerce, Korinthou Street, Argos. Read more
The CHS invites students to present their work on the Ancient world and the classical tradition on a symposium that will take place on Saturday, April 12, 2014. On their part, students should submit abstracts of 250 words, approved by their faculty mentor along with their mentor’s contact information via an online application by Friday, February 14, 2014. After the submission of the abstracts, the CHS will contact the… Read more
The CHS team wishes to express its sincerest congratulations to Dr. Joel P. Christensen for being awarded the highly prestigious 2013 American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level. The APA honored Dr. Christensen for his many exceptional achievements, including his outstanding teaching performance and true dedication on student development. Joel P. Christensen is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds. in March 2014 through Harvard University Press. 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… Read more
Anthony Schiavo has been designing and executing mosaics for almost eight decades. On November 9th a small group of classicists, artists, and visiting scholars gathered outside Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. to mark the arrival of two mosaic panels designed by renowned artist Hildreth Meière. The panels were part of a large-scale, triptych mural with the center panel depicting Hercules’ passage through the Straight of Gibraltar, and the two side panels featuring the Pillars of Hercules. Large mosaics such as these are often a collaborative endeavor, and Anthony Schiavo, who stood among the group that day, had worked on these panels twice. As a young man, he directed the team that fabricated the mosaic. Over 50 years later an unexpected sequence of events brought the mosaics back into his life. Schiavo says the story of how these masterpieces were created, lost, and restored is "a mosaic of a mosaic”, with each individual taking their own place in the progression of the story. The movement or flow created by the arrangement of tesserae in a mosaic is called the andamento, from the Italian verb meaning ‘to move’. This key concept guides the artist during composition, and also when dividing or joining individual sections of the work. For Schiavo, the andamento dei fatti or ‘turn of fate’ leading to this moment began in his hometown, long ago before the first tile was set in place. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Yannis Tzifopoulos ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 15 Ιανουαρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Η Αριστοτελική αντίληψη της αρετής και οι σύγχρονες αναβιώσεις της» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Στέλιος Βιρβιδάκης, Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών Συνομιλητής: Τάσος Καρακατσάνης, Υποψήφιος Διδάκτωρ Φιλοσοφίας Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The Aristotelian concept of virtue and its contemporary revivals” Lecturer: Stelios Virvidakis, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National Kapodistrian University of Athens Respondent: Tassos Karakatsanis, PhD Candidate in Philosophy 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… Read more
