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Library: New Books, July 2016

Read these new titles at the CHS Library in Washington, DC: E-books Reimer, David. Count like an Egyptian : a hands-on introduction to ancient mathematics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2014] The Routledge handbook of the Stoic tradition, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016… Read more

Forthcoming Live Webcasts from CHS — Summer/Fall 2016

Save the date! Don’t miss these live webcasts with visiting scholars on a wide variety of topics! Wednesday, August 10: Maria Xanthou, on Pindar (University of Leeds) Thursday September 15:  John C. Franklin, on Kinyras: The Divine Lyre (University of Vermont) Thursday, September 29: Deborah Beck, topic to be determined (University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, October… Read more

CIC Seminar 2016 l Herodotus

The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in this summer’s Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seminar. This summer participants worked their way through the nine books of Herodotus’ Histories while also reading secondary literature in… Read more

Hour 25 | Core Vocab: āthlos, āthlētēs

With the Olympic Games coming up, Sarah Scott, an active participant and member of the editorial team in Hour 25, shares this month’s Core Vocab word which is āthlos (aethlos) [ἆθλος/ἄεθλος] ‘contest, ordeal; competition’; and āthlētēs [ἀθλητής], ‘athlete’. In HeroesX Gregory Nagy introduces the word āthlētēs in a section about the Labors of Hēraklēs… Read more