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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Στέλιος Βιρβιδάκης, «Η Αριστοτελική αντίληψη της αρετής και οι σύγχρονες αναβιώσεις της»

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

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CHS Greece Event: Stelios Virvidakis, “The Aristotelian concept of virtue and its contemporary revivals”

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

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Featured Themes at CHS: Mothers and Mortal Children, December 2013

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Laura Slatkin The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays This influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness… Read more

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Lectures and Events: Gregory Nagy at Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens, January 20, 2014

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy will give a public talk on January 20th, 7:00 pm, at the Archaiologiki Etaireia (Panepistimiou Street) in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies (https://cods.upatras.gr). Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies,… Read more

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Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems by Thomas R. Walsh Available Online via CHS

New Online Publication at CHS The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Walsh’s Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems (2005) is now available as part of the CHS Online Publications collection. Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed Homer’s language beyond the study of the Iliad’s first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a… Read more

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Hadrian's Villa Launch at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in DC

IDIA Lab has designed a virtual simulation of the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site located outside of Rome in Tivoli, Italy. This project has been produced in collaboration with the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL) at Indiana University (IU), directed by Dr. Bernard Frischer and funded by the National Science Foundation. This large-scale recreation virtually interprets the entire villa complex in consultation… Read more

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Hadrian’s Villa Launch at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in DC

IDIA Lab has designed a virtual simulation of the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site located outside of Rome in Tivoli, Italy. This project has been produced in collaboration with the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL) at Indiana University (IU), directed by Dr. Bernard Frischer and funded by the National Science Foundation. This large-scale recreation virtually interprets the entire villa complex in consultation… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Aikaterini Polymerou Kamilaki, “Hidden in long-suffering Romiosyne, when I see Queen Greece from afar”: Thoughts on a distich by Palamas

Please join us on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Hidden in long-suffering Romiosyne, when I see Queen Greece from afar”: Thoughts on a distich by Palamas Lecturer: Aikaterini Polymerou Kamilaki, Director, Hellenic Folklore Research Center, Academy of Athens Respondent: Socrates Loupas, Art Historian The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic… Read more

Spring Break in Greece for Harvard Students & Young Alumni

Gregory Nagy, the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC is participating in the spring break trip to Greece on March 14 – March 22, 2014. The participants will have the chance to uncover Classical Greece through its most important archaeological sites under the guidance of one of the pioneers in the field, Professor Nagy. Read more

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Spring Break in Greece for Harvard Students & Young Alumni

Gregory Nagy, the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC is participating in the spring break trip to Greece on March 14 – March 22, 2014. The participants will have the chance to uncover Classical Greece through its most important archaeological sites under the guidance of one of the pioneers in the field, Professor Nagy. Read more