Recently, Gregory Nagy joined the CHS community for a discussion on the songmaking of Sappho. The conversation focused on Song 44 of Sappho, which has been significant to Nagy’s research over the past forty-two years. Watch below as Nagy fields questions from our community members and discusses his affinity to this fascinating song of Sappho. For more from professor Nagy on Song 44 of Sappho, as well as on Homeric… Read more
When: September 18, 2016 at 1 PM Where: Sanders Theater Join us at the CHS’ booth at TEDxHarvardCollege 2016 conference Incite Insight! Stop by to learn more about our publications (in print and online), the Center’s programs, symposiums and other activities that happen all year round. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein Humanity’s pursuit… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies supports scholars and their research with a variety of configurations. All fellows receive an appointment for at least one academic year. Fellows receive varying levels of support and may reside at the Center for a term up to 17 weeks, depending on the scope and needs of their proposed projects. For more information about their research, see the CHS Research Bulletin. 2016 Fall Term Fellows Joachim… Read more
Gregory Nagy of Harvard University will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion about Sappho’s Song 44 and about his postings on Classical Inquiries. The event takes place on Tuesday, September 6 at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Visit the Hour 25 website for the live stream event or watch and join the live chat on YouTube. On Song 44 The process… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and Information… Read more
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 Rüpke, Jörg. Religious deviance in the Roman world : superstition or individuality?, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016… Read more
Safdar Mandviwala, a member of the Hour 25 community, had the opportunity to travel to Greece along with the Harvard Alumni Association’s travel-study program led by Gregory Nagy. In a recent Hour 25 posting, Safdar Mandviwala shares insights about their time in Athens and Marathon, which was also the last leg of the travel-study program. It was at the farewell dinner that night… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a CHS Dialogue on Pindar on Wednesday, August 10, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Visit Hour 25 for the live stream webcast, focus passages to prepare for this conversation, and a discussion with community members on the topic. Maria G. Xanthou (PhD Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a CHS Dialogue on Pindar on Wednesday, August 10, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Visit Hour 25 for the live stream webcast, focus passages to prepare for this conversation, and a discussion with community members on the topic. Maria G. Xanthou (PhD Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) has taught Classical… Read more
