CHS Learning Module

CHS Essentials | Origins of Charisma

“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of… Read more

CHS Essentials | Origins of Charisma

“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at Harvard’s… Read more

CHS Essentials | How Old is our Iliad?

How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. Read more

CHS Essentials | How Old is our Iliad?

How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws… Read more

CHS Essentials | Oral Poetics

In this week’s featured CHS Essentials video, Greg Nagy talks about the body of poetry. The word ‘body’ is very important in its use, in that it conveys something that is not just systematic but is also alive; just like oral poetry. Oral poetry comes alive in performance. How does the word… Read more

CHS Essentials | Oral Poetics

In this week’s featured CHS Essentials video, Greg Nagy talks about the body of poetry. The word ‘body’ is very important in its use, in that it conveys something that is not just systematic but is also alive; just like oral poetry. Oral poetry comes alive in performance. How does the word… Read more