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Apply Now: Fellowships in Hellenic Studies 2024-2025

Application deadlines: Sunday, October 15, 2023Reference letter deadlines: Sunday, October 22, 2023 The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2024-25 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. The programs offered include the Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, the Early Career Fellowship in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus, CHS-Institute of Historical Research Joint Fellowship in Hellenic Studies,… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

Each of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and disqualifying Telemachus from his rightful royal inheritance. Their words are contentious, censorious, and intent on marking Odysseus’ son as unfit for kingship. However, in keeping with other reversals in the Odyssey, it is the suitors who are shown to be unfit to rule. In Blemished Kings, Andrea Kouklanakis interprets the language of the suitors—their fighting words—as Homeric… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

During the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 3000–1500 BCE), the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. The dyes included those made from the labor-intensive processing of crocus stamens for saffron dye and even more costly dyes made from certain sea snails (the Muricidae/Murex). Minoan and Mycenaean textile producers (the palaces) operated mainly in the Black Sea region, rich in gold. “Purpled world” is Morris Silver’s term for this… Read more

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Kyklos 2023

23 June 2023, 8:00 am ET

Kyklos is a program that represents an ever-regenerated discourse on the Greek Epic Cycle (Greek Kyklos) and it is devoted to new and developing scholarship on the subject. Read more

Wonder: A Workshop on the State of the Question.

6 May 2023

This workshop aims to explore two things: how different genres and knowledge domains in Greek antiquity over time harnessed the concept of wonder (e.g., philosophy, art history, poetry, religion, and medicine), and how different subfields in Classics and in adjacent disciplines conceptualize wonder as a valuable analytical category. Read more