Please join us on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “On Duties: Moral Edification in the Early Enlightenment” Lecturer: Nikos Panou, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University Respondent: Chariton Karanasios, Research Director, Research Center for the Medieval and Modern Hellenism, Academy of Athens… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “On Duties: Moral Edification in the Early Enlightenment” Lecturer: Nikos Panou, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University Respondent: Chariton Karanasios, Research Director, Research Center for the Medieval and Modern Hellenism,… Read more
We are pleased to announce that Anuv Ratan (Harvard University, ’14) is the winner of the 2012 Heroes Essay Contest for his paper titled “Anger in the Iliad : Mēnis, Kholos, and Social Order.” Anuv’s work was chosen from among many beautiful essays written for Gregory Nagy’s Concepts of… Read more
Publications and Resources New in Online Publications Graeme D. Bird Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri Graeme Bird examines a small group of early papyrus manuscripts of Homer’s Iliad, known as the Ptolemaic papyri, which, although fragmentary, are… Read more
Concepts of the Hero: 2011 Proseminar Close Reading Modules As part of its educational mission, the Center for Hellenic Studies offers free access to a dynamic online archive of all the resources associated with a distance learning version of Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization. Read more
Publications and Resources New in the Hellenic Studies Series M. Rahim Shayegan Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām (print via HUP) Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Oedipus and Narcissus as Fundamental Personalities of Psychoanalysis” Lecturer: Professor Nikolaos Tzavaras, Neurologist – Psychiatrist, Teaching Analyst, Member of the International, Greek and German Psychoanalytical Society, Medical School, Democritean University of Thrace Respondent: Dr. Stelios Krasanakis, Psychiatrist, Dramatherapist, Theater… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 7 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Oedipus and Narcissus as Fundamental Personalities of Psychoanalysis” Lecturer: Professor Nikolaos Tzavaras, Neurologist – Psychiatrist, Teaching Analyst, Member of the International, Greek and German Psychoanalytical Society, Medical School, Democritean University of Thrace Respondent:… Read more
Publications and Resources New in the Hellenic Studies Series Tarik Wareh The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers (print via HUP) The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and… Read more
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS: ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES AND MODERN CHALLENGES HARVARD UNIVERSITY – BOSTON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012 Convener Professor Mark Schiefsky Professor and Chair, Department of the Classics Harvard University THEME Technology is sometimes viewed as a force that… Read more
