Publications and Resources New in Online Publications Graeme D. Bird Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri Graeme Bird examines a small group of early papyrus manuscripts of Homer’s Iliad, known as the Ptolemaic papyri, which, although fragmentary, are the oldest surviving physical evidence of the text of the Iliad, dating from the third to the first centuries BCE. Read more
Concepts of the Hero: 2011 Proseminar Close Reading Modules As part of its educational mission, the Center for Hellenic Studies offers free access to a dynamic online archive of all the resources associated with a distance learning version of Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization. This course has been taught by Harvard Professor Gregory Nagy, assisted by a team of teachers and Teaching Fellows, almost every… Read more
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE), which in essence reports on a suspicious fratricide and subsequent coup d’état. Moreover, the study shows how the inscription’s narrative would decisively influence the Iranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions well into the Sasanian and… Read more
Publications and Resources New in the Hellenic Studies Series M. Rahim Shayegan Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām (print via HUP) Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE),… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Oedipus and Narcissus as Fundamental Personalities of Psychoanalysis” Lecturer: Professor Nikolaos Tzavaras, Neurologist – Psychiatrist, Teaching Analyst, Member of the International, Greek and German Psychoanalytical Society, Medical School, Democritean University of Thrace Respondent: Dr. Stelios Krasanakis, Psychiatrist, Dramatherapist, Theater Director, Chairman of the “AION” Dramatherapeutical Institute, Director of the “Theseus” Rehabilitation Center… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Oedipus and Narcissus as Fundamental Personalities of Psychoanalysis” Lecturer: Professor Nikolaos Tzavaras, Neurologist – Psychiatrist, Teaching Analyst, Member of the International, Greek and German Psychoanalytical Society, Medical School, Democritean University of Thrace Respondent: Dr. Stelios Krasanakis, Psychiatrist, Dramatherapist, Theater Director, Chairman of the “AION” Dramatherapeutical Institute, Director of the “Theseus” Rehabilitation Center… Read more
The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. Tarik Wareh shows that when Aristotle illustrates his ethical theory by reference to the practical arts, this is no simple appeal to a homespun commonsense… Read more
Publications and Resources New in the Hellenic Studies Series Tarik Wareh The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers (print via HUP) The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival… Read more
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS: ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES AND MODERN CHALLENGES HARVARD UNIVERSITY – BOSTON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012 Convener Professor Mark Schiefsky Professor and Chair, Department of the Classics Harvard University THEME Technology is sometimes viewed as a force that diminishes the creative possibilities of human life at the same time as it enhances material prosperity. This meeting will explore… Read more
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
