The CHS invites students to present their work on the Ancient world and the classical tradition on a symposium that will take place on Saturday, April 12, 2014. On their part, students should submit abstracts of 250 words, approved by their faculty mentor along with their mentor’s contact information via… Read more
The CHS team wishes to express its sincerest congratulations to Dr. Joel P. Christensen for being awarded the highly prestigious 2013 American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level. The APA honored Dr. Christensen for his many exceptional achievements, including his outstanding teaching… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds. in March 2014 through Harvard University Press. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to… Read more
Anthony Schiavo has been designing and executing mosaics for almost eight decades. On November 9th a small group of classicists, artists, and visiting scholars gathered outside Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. to mark the arrival of two mosaic panels designed by renowned artist Hildreth Meière. The panels were part of a large-scale, triptych mural with the center panel depicting Hercules’ passage through the Straight of Gibraltar, and… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Yannis Tzifopoulos ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete This is a study of the… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 15 Ιανουαρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Η Αριστοτελική αντίληψη της αρετής και οι σύγχρονες αναβιώσεις της» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Στέλιος Βιρβιδάκης, Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών Συνομιλητής: Τάσος Καρακατσάνης,… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The Aristotelian concept of virtue and its contemporary revivals” Lecturer: Stelios Virvidakis, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National Kapodistrian University of Athens Respondent: Tassos Karakatsanis, PhD Candidate in Philosophy The lecture will be… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Laura Slatkin The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays This influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy will give a public talk on January 20th, 7:00 pm, at the Archaiologiki Etaireia (Panepistimiou Street) in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies (https://cods.upatras.gr). Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek… Read more
New Online Publication at CHS The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Walsh’s Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems (2005) is now available as part of the CHS Online Publications collection. Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few… Read more
