Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 6!
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17 March 2023
Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns this Spring with a new season of performances taking place on screen and in person. Read more
Archive
Fellow Talk | Stella Katsarou
22 March 2023, 11:00 am ET
Greece hosted vibrant Neolithic communities that spread over various landscapes, including caves in all settings. The absence of textual evidence makes materiality our utmost medium through those communities’ social and spiritual worlds. Read more
Distinguished Lecturer: Paulin Ismard
21 March 2023, 6:00 pm ET
A question keeps coming up about slavery in the Greek world: how is it possible that the great thinkers of classical Athens never denounced, and even endorsed, the crime of slavery? Read more
19th Annual Frank M. Snowden Jr. Lecture
28 February 2023, 5:30 pm ET
Jackie Murray is an associate professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and at SUNY at Buffalo. She completed her BA at the University of Guelph, MA at Western University, and PhD in Classics at the University of Washington. Read more
Fireside Chat with Jackie Murray
27 February 2023, 6:00 pm ET
Please join us in person at House A for a fireside chat with Jackie Murray. A reception will follow, with a tour of the Black Classicists Exhibit. Read more
Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal Art
Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT, and OFT is only a part of scholarship on weathered words. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings… Read more
Fellow Talk | Jessica Lamont
15 February 2023, 11:00 am ET
Grounded in social history, the talk explores the emergence of medical pluralism—the interwoven professional and cultural systems or “marketplaces” that evolved to manage health and disease—in Greek communities across the ancient Mediterranean. Read more
In Memoriam: Philippos Tsiboglou
The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington and Greece would like to express our sincerest condolences to the family of the late Philippou Tsiboglou, Director General of the National Library of Greece, as well as to the entire NLG team. Read more
Fellow Talk: Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism
8 February 2023, 11:00 am ET
On Wednesday, February 8 at 11:00am EDT, a fellow from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece will be visiting us in Washington, DC and giving a presentation on his research. We hope you can join us in House A, or on Zoom. Read more
Fellows Talk: Pre-doctoral Fellows in Hellenic Studies
7 February 2023, 11:00 am ET
On Tuesday, February 7 at 11:00am EDT, three fellows from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece will be visiting us in Washington, DC and giving a presentation on their research. We hope you can join us in person in House A, or on Zoom. Read more