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Discussion—Hammering A Nail With A Nail: Reading Collections of Ancient Greek Proverbs, with Joel Christensen

We are pleased to welcome Joel Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio/Brandeis University) for a discussion about ancient Greek proverbs, which will take place on Thursday, June 23 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will be streamed live, and will be recorded. Joel Christensen prepared several blog posts for interested readers to focus. Paroimiai: Proverbs from Ancient Greece to Star Trek… Read more

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Sunoikisis Faculty Development Seminar | June 16–19, 2016

We are pleased to share the schedule for the Sunoikisis Imperial Faculty Development Seminar. The discussions will be streamed live. The sessions are summarized below, and you can find further details in this document: Schedule Latin for Hour 25 Latin: June 16–19, 2016 Live stream link: https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html Thursday June 16 9:00–10:30 a.m. Intro Session 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 1: Pliny and… Read more

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Sunoikisis Faculty Development Seminar | June 16–19, 2016

We are pleased to share the schedule for the Sunoikisis Imperial Faculty Development Seminar. The discussions will be streamed live. The sessions are summarized below, and you can find further details in this document: Schedule Latin for Hour 25 Latin: June 16–19, 2016 Live stream link: https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html Thursday June 16 9:00–10:30 a.m. Intro Session 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 1: Pliny and Tacitus 2:00–3:00… Read more

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Apply Now for the CHS Semester Internship in Washington, DC!

Fall Semester, 2016 The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), a research institution devoted to the study of all aspects of ancient Hellenic civilization, seeks an intern to serve as a general assistant from August 29, 2016-January 31, 2017, with an option for renewal for the spring semester. Hours Part-time, 8-10 hours per week, $12.00/hour. The CHS is open 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday, and the… Read more

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Upcoming Sunoikisis Planning Seminar

The Center for Hellenic Studies is excited for the upcoming Sunoikisis Course Planning and Faculty Development Seminar. Seventeen professors from across the country and around the world will be attending the Greek and Latin Sunoikisis planning seminars, both in person and electronically, from June 10th to June 20th. This year’s Greek seminar is focusing on Hellenistic Literature with Ivana and Andrej Petrovic from Durham University serving… Read more

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Classical Inquiries | Trying to read the Will of Zeus

In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy focuses on the Homeric expression Dios boulē, which has has translated at times as ‘the Will of Zeus’ and at other times ‘the Plan of Zeus’. Nagy explains the variation in his translation: I see no contradiction here, since I have always understood the Will of Zeus to be the functional equivalent of the… Read more

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The Free First Thousand Years of Greek | Q&A with Leonard Muellner

The CHS team had the chance to connect with Leonard Muellner, Director of Publications and Information Technology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, to talk about the background and most recent progress on The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to… Read more

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The Free First Thousand Years of Greek | Q&A with Leonard Muellner

The CHS team had the chance to connect with Leonard Muellner, Director of Publications and Information Technology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, to talk about the background and most recent progress on The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a… Read more

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An interview with Professor George Babiniotis, Professor of Linguistics, Former Rector of the University of Athens

Professor George Babiniotis, Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Athens and former Rector (2000-2006) of the University, joined us recently at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplio, Greece,  for a lecture on “Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue”. The lecture, which was part of the Events Series 2016 organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, was supported by… Read more

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Introducing the new 2016-2017 fellows!

The CHS is pleased to announce the new fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. CHS Fellows in Hellenic Studies Fall Term Fellows Joachim Aufderheide (Germany) King’s College London Nicomachean Ethics X: Translation and Commentary Chun Bai (China) Zhejiang University A Comparative Study: The Cyclic View of Human Condition in Thucydides’ Archaeology (1.2-19) and Si Ma Qian’s Preface to Historical Records Stylianos Chronopoulos (Greece) University of Freiburg Towards a Digital Edition of Pollux’ Onomasticon… Read more