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New Exhibit: Animals in Antiquity

Modern classical scholarship has only recently begun to examine the subject of animals in antiquity (along with research on women, “barbarians,” slaves, disabled people, and other “marginal” groups). This in spite of the fact that animals abound in ancient art and literature. In ancient Egypt, animals were worshiped as deities. In ancient Greece, they were the companions or theomorphic stand-ins for gods and goddesses. Ancient authors from Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch,… Read more

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Call for Contributions: “Humanities in the Text”

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) and the École Normale Supérieure – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS–PSL) are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to the program “Humanities in the Text.” Initiated by ENS–PSL with the support of the École Universitaire de recherche Translitterae, and organized in collaboration with the French Ministry of Education and Youth, CNARELA, and APLAES, and now supported by CHS, this program seeks to create a digital anthology of Greek and… Read more

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In Memoriam: Michael C. J. Putnam

The Center for Hellenic Studies mourns the passing of Michael C. J. Putnam. An alumnus of Harvard University (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.) and long-time faculty member at Brown’s Department of Classics, Michael was a dedicated servant to the field of classics.  Read more

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Two Magnificent Newly Acquired Facsimiles

By Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian Two famous and exquisite manuscript facsimiles are on display at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Both are of texts and images by ancient Greek writers, one a geographer, mathematician, astronomer, music theorist, and philosopher living in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemaios, and the other a medical doctor, Pedanius Dioscorides living in the 1st century CE. Both were revolutionary for their time and their work… Read more