We are pleased to welcome our guests for the final Online Open House discussion of the Spring 2018 session: Maša Ćulumović (Center for Hellenic Studies), Nancy Felson (University of Georgia), and Laura Slatkin (NYU Gallatin). They will be joining us on Wednesday, May 9 at 11:00 a.m. EDT for a discussion of exchanges in the underworld from the Odyssey. Read more
We are pleased to welcome Casey Dué of University of Houston for a CHS Online Open House discussion about multiformity of the Iliad with special focus on Iliad 20. The event will take place on Thursday, May 3, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
We are pleased to welcome Casey Dué of University of Houston for a CHS Online Open House discussion about multiformity of the Iliad with special focus on Iliad 20. The event will take place on Thursday, May 3, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
The Hellenic Foundation for Culture, with support from Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, presents saxophonist Dimitri Vassilakis, joined by two of the best jazz musicians in New York — bassist Essiet Essiet, a collaborator of Art Blakey, and drummer Sylvia Cuenca — as well as dancers from Word Dance Theater, a Washington DC-based dance company. Read more
On Friday, April 27 at 6:30pm EDT, Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University) will present "A Brief History of Black Classicism in the United States" in celebration of the exhibition Black Classicists. A live stream will be available! Read more
Join us on Friday, April 27, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., in Patras for a lecture on “Like the old soldier. Instigation, prudence and honor in the Homeric interpretations from antiquity to the Renaissance” with Filippomaria Pontani. Read more
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University, Department of Classics, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion about Disability in Homer on Thursday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University, Department of Classics, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion about Disability in Homer on Thursday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Read more
“In an epic text, how were poets able to represent emotion? How can we understand today their way of speaking? Did Achilles “copy” the behavior of warriors from those distant times? Or might it be the reverse: did the epic influence certain real behaviors?” This month’s Book Club selection is taken from Hélène Monsacré: The Tears of Achilles, newly available online at CHS in an English translation. Read more
“In an epic text, how were poets able to represent emotion? How can we understand today their way of speaking? Did Achilles “copy” the behavior of warriors from those distant times? Or might it be the reverse: did the epic influence certain real behaviors?” This month’s Book Club selection is taken from Hélène Monsacré: The Tears of Achilles, newly available online at CHS in an English translation. Read more
