Featured Publication Casey Dué Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis This work centers on the figure of Briseis in the Iliad—who may seem at first sight to be marginal to the plot of that epic but who turns out to be essential to it—and even to… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad by Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. The Iliad defines its poetic goal as preserving the kleos aphthiton, “fame unwithered,” (IX.413) of its hero, Achilles. But how are we to understand the status of the “unwithered” in the Iliad? In Homeric… Read more
Παλαιότεροι καθηγητές και φοιτητές του δημοφιλούς μαθήματος του Harvard θα βοηθούν τους διαδικτυακούς σπουδαστές να εμπλακούν ενεργά με αρχαία ποίηση, τραγούδια και λογοτεχνία. Εικόνα 1. "Boston Hydria". Αττική μελανόμορφη υδρία: ο Αχιλλέας σέρνει το σώμα του Έκτορα. Αποδίδεται στο Antiope Group. Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών, Βοστώνη, 63,473. Σχέδιο Valerie Woelfel. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia by Daniel L. Schwartz. Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. It analyzes the Catechetical… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 7 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “Financial-Economic Crises, Myth and Reality: What do we learn from history?” Lecturer: Ioanna-Sappho Pepelassi, Associate Professor of Economic History, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business Respondent: Dr. Stathis Koutrouvidis, Economic Historian… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The Identity of Greek Dance in the 21st Century – Myth and Reality,” Lecturer: Katia Savrami, Choreologist, Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Dance, Department of Theater Studies, University of Patras Respondent: Haris Mandafounis, Choreographer,… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The Identity of Greek Dance in the 21st Century – Myth and Reality,” Lecturer: Katia Savrami, Choreologist, Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Dance, Department of Theater Studies, University of Patras… Read more
Mindful of hidden and absent signifiers, classicist Douglas Frame brings new light to Nestor, nostos, and the Homeric question. We are especially pleased to share the following conversation with CHS author and classicist Douglas Frame about his innovative approach to Homer, the non-traditional path of his career, and his influential… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in Context by Yannis Papadogiannakis. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. This book—the first full-length study of the “last and most beautiful” apology… Read more
Hour 7 of The Ancient Greek Hero examines this "double exposure" moment that depicts Achilles as an apobatic athlete dragging the body of Hector. Image: "Boston Hydria." Attic black-figure hydria: Attributed to the Antiope Group. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 63.473. Drawing by Valerie Woelfel. Join the Fall 2013… Read more
