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ABOUT CHS

Library: New Titles

New Titles Cataloged January 2017 Location: Periodicals Bitto, Gregor, author Vergimus in senium: Statius’ Achilleis als Alterswerk, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016] Jonkers, Gijsbert, author The textual tradition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2017 Reif, Matthias, author De arte magorum: Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter Hexenszenen bei Theokrit, Vergil, Horaz, Ovid, Seneca und Lucan unter Berücksichtigung des Ritualaufbaus und der Relation zu den Zauberpapyri… Read more

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Jørgen Mejer – Remembrance by Judith P. Hallett

Jørgen Mejer I would like to thank Henriette for sharing my words with you today: for allowing me to express, in my not always comprehensible idiomatic American English, deep sorrow at Jørgen’s untimely death, and profound thanks for his remarkable life. As soon as Henriette phoned me at mid-day on Monday, which was Labor Day in the US, to tell me that Jørgen had suddenly departed from our midst, I… Read more

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Memorial: A Reminiscence of Former Director Zeph Stewart

A Reminiscence of Zeph Stewart by Patricia Curd, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University On the first Monday of the first week of the winter term in 1990, I found in my department mailbox a slim envelope from the Center for Hellenic Studies. Clearly, the envelope contained a single sheet of paper. A skinny letter. Because all my experience of skinny letters suggested that they were rejections, I tossed it on… Read more

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Library: Landing

Research at the CHS Library The CHS Library collection focuses upon and supports research in all areas of Ancient Hellenic Civilization.  Subject coverage includes literature (archaic, classical, Hellenistic and early imperial), history, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology, architecture, epigraphy, papyrology, medicine, mathematics, science and numismatics. Collections in Latin Literature and Roman Studies are less complete, but very useful for comparative purposes and interdisciplinary projects. In its early years the Library was… Read more

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Gallery

CHS Gallery In this section, the Center for Hellenic Studies features photographs from its various activities and events as well as artistic contributions from the CHS community. CHS Events Annual May Party CHS celebrated its annual end-of-year party on May 17, 2005.  This year’s Persian-themed party was held under a tent on the lawn behind the Director’s house with Persian food and musicians.   This sketch of the Persian musicians… Read more

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Lexington Books

Lexington Books The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with Lexington Books, which publishes “Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Series.” Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium, B.C., to the present – from the Archaic and Classical periods to today.The aim is to enhance perspectives… Read more

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Foundation for the Hellenic World

The Foundation for the Hellenic World The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with The Foundation for the Hellenic World, a not-for-profit cultural institution based in Athens, Greece.  The Foundation uses state-of-the-art, cutting-edge information and computer technology in its pursuit of the research, awareness and understanding of Hellenic history and culture. Visit The Foundation for the Hellenic World… Read more

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Stoa Consortium

The Stoa Consortium The Center for Hellenic Studies is a partner with The Stoa Consortium, a leader in refereeing electronic scholarly publications in the humanities and developing new models of scholarly collaboration. Along with the Stoa Consortium, the Center enthusiastically promotes such models of electronic publication. The CHS offers to contributors mutually non-exclusive rights of electronic publication of all material on the web site. That… Read more

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Milman Parry Collection

The Milman Parry Collection The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature is the largest single repository of South Slavic heroic song in the world. It comprises the following separate collections. All of these are currently housed in Harvard University’s Widener Library, Room C: 1. The texts and recordings of oral literature, including epic, lyric songs, and ballads, some stories, and conversations with singers and others,… Read more

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Partners – External Resources

External Resources for Research in the Classics  Please visit the following links for more information about The Center for Hellenic Studies, CHS affiliates, and other useful Hellenic and Classical Studies websites. Regional Organizations American Classical League American Philological Association AAH Association of Ancient Historians AIA Archaeological Institute of America… Read more