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
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 the Hero in Greek Civilization course, which is currently being offered through Harvard and Harvard Extension. The winner was chosen… 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 the oldest surviving physical evidence of the text of the Iliad, dating from the third to the first centuries BCE. 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. This course has been taught by Harvard Professor Gregory Nagy, assisted by a team of teachers and Teaching Fellows, almost every… 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 most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE),… 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 Director, Chairman of the “AION” Dramatherapeutical Institute, Director of the “Theseus” Rehabilitation Center… 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 Director, Chairman of the “AION” Dramatherapeutical Institute, Director of the “Theseus” Rehabilitation Center… 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 careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival… 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 diminishes the creative possibilities of human life at the same time as it enhances material prosperity. This meeting will explore… Read more
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CHS As one of Albert Lord’s former students, it gives me great pleasure to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 15, 1912. As a pioneering scholar in the study of oral traditions, Lord had a profound impact on our understanding of oral epic traditions, including the tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey. His book The Singer of Tales introduced thousands of readers to the richness… Read more
