Featured Publications and Resources @CHS New in the Hellenic Studies Series Christos Tsagalis From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad This book offers a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the different types and functions of space in the earliest work of Greek literature. Adopting a twofold division between simple and embedded story space, Tsagalis shows how character drawing and authority are deeply influenced… Read more
On Saturday, September 29th, 2012 the Oxford Society of Greece will be holding, for a second consecutive year, a series of readings by Oxford graduates who are also practicing poets and creative prose-writers in Greek, English or both. As last year, the event will be hosted by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS-GR) in Nafplion (The Iatrou Building, Philellinon Square & Othonos, 1). Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies offers students and scholars of Homer a particularly deep selection of publications and resources--all freely available online. Read more
Students and researchers can use the HMT Image Citation Tool to "quote" from high resolution images of the Venetus A. This tutorial attempts to provide very practical, step-by-step guidance to help new users create and use quotations from these valuable images. Read more
On Wednesday, September 12 the CHS website will be unavailable from approximately 8 a.m.-10 a.m. due to regularly scheduled maintenance. Other CHS content may also be unavailable during that time including: some Athens Dialogues websites kleos@CHS Homer Multitext Blog Fellows Research Bulletin some image databases We appreciate your patience as we work to improve our online resources. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus by Norman B. Sandridge, available now through Harvard University Press. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king of… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Victor Bers’ GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). In this monograph Victor Bers attempts to show that many features of Athenian court speech in the deluxe form we know from the preserved speeches were fashioned to avoid the failings of amateur… Read more
Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization, Video Proseminar on Hesiod Kevin McGrath, Gregory Nagy, and the Heroes Teaching Fellows discuss Hesiod as a bridge between the world of Homer and the polis of ancient Greek drama. Laura Slatkin, “Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod’s Works and Days” in The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays. Slatkin shows that in early Greek thought and poetics, both values and… Read more
Anyone can browse and cite images from manuscripts in the Homer Multitext Library, including the manuscripts known as the Venetus A, the Venetus B, and U4. First open the Manuscript Browser, currently found at https://chs75.chs.harvard.edu/manuscripts/index.html?ms=msA. You can always find a link to the browser on the CHS homepage (chs.harvard.edu). To go to and compare a particular passage of the Iliad in multiple manuscripts Enter the… Read more
Graeme Bird and a student from Gordon College examine an 1800-year-old Homeric papyrus.Photo Credit: Cyndi McMahon, Gordon College "True improvisation has nothing really to do with “making stuff up on the spot”; rather it is the creative and inspired weaving together of previously rehearsed material…" --Graeme Bird We recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with professor, musician, and CHS author Graeme D. Bird about his work on ancient Homeric papyri, jazz improvisation, and the surprising intersections between the two. Read more
