Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato, by Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré The CHS is pleased to announce the first ever publication of Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré’s 1920 dissertation Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato. This text offers an in-depth and enlightening analysis of the concept of τέχνη in Plato. Jeffré’s thesis was approved for publication… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce that The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy is now available online on the CHS website. Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron is now available online on the CHS website! Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository imperative… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website. Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India by Shubha Pathak through Harvard University Press. The central character of Divine Yet Human Epics is the developing conception of epic itself. Its story unfolds as the… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy by Andrea Capra in December 2014 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… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur in December 2014 through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur in December 2014 through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile… Read more
