A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CHS As one of Albert Lord’s former students, it gives me great pleasure to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 15, 1912. As a pioneering scholar in the study of oral traditions, Lord had a profound impact on our understanding of oral epic traditions, including the tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey. His book The Singer of Tales introduced thousands of readers to the richness… Read more
Featured Publications and Resources @CHS New in the Hellenic Studies Series Christos Tsagalis From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad This book offers a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the different types and functions of space in the earliest work of Greek literature. Adopting a twofold division between simple and embedded story space, Tsagalis shows how character drawing and authority are deeply influenced… Read more
Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king of the Persian Empire. In this book, Norman Sandridge argues that Xenophon actually reduces his Theory of Leadership to a set of fundamental traits, namely, the love of humanity, the love of learning, and the love of being honored. These so-called fundamental traits are the product of several rich contexts… Read more
On Saturday, September 29th, 2012 the Oxford Society of Greece will be holding, for a second consecutive year, a series of readings by Oxford graduates who are also practicing poets and creative prose-writers in Greek, English or both. As last year, the event will be hosted by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS-GR) in Nafplion (The Iatrou Building, Philellinon Square & Othonos, 1). Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies offers students and scholars of Homer a particularly deep selection of publications and resources--all freely available online. Read more
Students and researchers can use the HMT Image Citation Tool to "quote" from high resolution images of the Venetus A. This tutorial attempts to provide very practical, step-by-step guidance to help new users create and use quotations from these valuable images. Read more
Students and researchers can use the HMT Image Citation Tool to "quote" from high resolution images of the Venetus A. This tutorial attempts to provide very practical, step-by-step guidance to help new users create and use quotations from these valuable images. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus by Norman B. Sandridge, available now through Harvard University Press. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king of… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus by Norman B. Sandridge, available now through Harvard University Press. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Victor Bers’ GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). In this monograph Victor Bers attempts to show that many features of Athenian court speech in the deluxe form we know from the preserved speeches were fashioned to avoid the failings of amateur… Read more
