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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ο Νίκος Χουρμουζιάδης (Nikos Chourmouziadis), Ομότιμος καθηγητής της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής και Επίτιμος διδάκτωρ της Σχολής Θεάτρου του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης, απεβίωσε στις 18 Οκτωβρίου 2013, σε ηλικία 83 ετών. Ο Χουρμουζιάδης υπήρξε υπότροφος του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών κατά το έτος 1966. Το ακαδημαϊκό έργο του επικεντρώθηκε στη δραματουργία και την θεατρικότητα στην αρχαία τραγωδία, ιδιαίτερα του Ευριπίδη (στα αγγλικά, Production and Imagination in Euripides, Αθήνα 1965). Ο ίδιος επεκτάθηκε και… Read more
New Online Publication at CHS The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy's Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990) is now available as part of the CHS Online Publications collection. Pindar's Homer continues the work that Nagy began in two previous books: The Best of the Achaeans and Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter. As the title makes clear, the central concern is not Pindar, but the relationship of Pindar's tradition to other lyric traditions and to the epic tradition of Homer. Read more
