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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Oldest "Book" of Europe: Afterlife and the Birth of the Cosmos in the Derveni Papyrus

The Embassy of Greece, in collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University and the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, invites you to an event dedicated to the Derveni Papyrus. Featuring: Dr. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Associate in Multi-Disciplinary Research, Information Technology and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, and Dr. Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The event will take place on Thursday,… Read more

The Oldest “Book” of Europe: Afterlife and the Birth of the Cosmos in the Derveni Papyrus

The Embassy of Greece, in collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University and the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, invites you to an event dedicated to the Derveni Papyrus. Featuring: Dr. Ioanna Papadopoulou, Associate in Multi-Disciplinary Research, Information Technology and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, and Dr. Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The event will take place on Thursday, May… Read more

CHS GR Event: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, “Ancient Greek cult statues in the Roman Empire: Globalization through theft, copying and repetition”

CHS GR Event Please join us on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the last lecture of this year’s Events Series: “Ancient Greek cult statues in the Roman Empire: Globalization through theft, copying and repetition” Lecturer: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University The event will take place at the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall”… Read more