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Now Available Online – Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel

Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel, by Panagiotis Roilos The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel, by Panagiotis Roilos on the CHS website. This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory… Read more

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Now Available Online – From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad

From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad, by Christos Tsagalis The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad, by Christos Tsagalis on the CHS website. What do we mean by “space” in the Iliad? The aim of this book is to offer a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the different types and functions of space in the earliest work of Greek… Read more

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Now Available Online – Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space, edited by Sahar Bazzaz, Yota Batsaki and Dimiter Angelov, on the CHS website. Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires… Read more

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Celebrating New Publications and Old Friends in New Orleans

The 146th annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the APA) wrapped up on Sunday, January 11 in New Orleans. Center Director Gregory Nagy and Director of IT and Publications Leonard Muellner attended. CHS team members Temple Wright, Lanah Koelle, Jill Robbins, Allie Marbry, Claudia Filos, and Robin Olson were also on hand, representing… Read more

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Now Available Online – Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth… Read more

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New CHS Publication – The Theban Epics

The Theban Epics, by Malcolm Davies The CHS is happy to announce the publication of The Theban Epics by Malcolm Davies through Harvard University Press. In antiquity, the story of the failed assault of the Seven against Thebes ranked second only to the Trojan War. But whereas the latter was immortalized by Homer’s Iliad, the account of the former in the epic Thebais survives only in fragments preserved in later authors. The same… Read more

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New CHS Publication – The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective

 The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective, by José M. González The CHS is happy to announce the publication of The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective, by José M. González through Harvard University Press. The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery… Read more

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New CHS Publication – Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy by Andrea Capra through Harvard University Press. Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato’s most self-referential dialogue, and Plato’s reference to four Muses in Phaedrus 259c–d is read as a hint… Read more

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Now Available Online – The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers

The CHS is pleased to announce that Tarik Wareh’s The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers is now available online on the CHS website. 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… Read more

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Now Available Online – Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars

Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of  Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks of the 5th century and to support this knowledge by evidence that will take the form of cataloguing. “The Greeks… Read more