The Hellenistic Stoics defend a striking combination of claims within their physics, some of which appear to be in tension with others. First, they argue that only bodies can be causes, and all processes and conditions in the natural world result from bodies making contact with each other. However, they also maintain that an omnipresent God exists, and he crafts the world to be as good as possible. Thus, God… Read more
CHS Greece will sponsor two remote museum internships for Harvard students this summer: the Museum of Cycladic Art Internship and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum Internship. Read more
Credit: Sofia Camplioni Phoebe Giannisi was born in Athens in 1964. She studied architecture at the National Polytechnic School of Athens (1988) and received her PhD at the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris (1994), where she completed a dissertation on Ancient Greek poetry and architecture, focusing on the metaphor of the poem as a path (published later as Récits des voies. Chant et cheminement en Grèce archaïque. Grenoble: Editions… Read more
Sign-up for this program is currently closed. Check back in late spring for the next round of sign-ups! The Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP), in collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is seeking volunteers to help the First Thousand Years of Greek Project reach its goal! There are approximately… Read more
The Francis Jones Graduate Assistantship Program is a newly created program aiming to support the study of the humanities and social sciences and to encourage service-based learning for pre-doctoral researchers who plan to pursue careers both within academia and beyond the academy. For the Spring 2021 semester, five Harvard graduate students have been awarded graduate assistantships and will be working with various CHS projects. These projects are: New Alexandria Commentary… Read more
Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Marios Panagiotou works as an actor/performer, director, and facilitator in Αthens. Having graduated from the School of Philosophy – Department of Philology (Division of Theater-Cinema Studies and Musicology) at the University… Read more
Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is an actress, teacher, director, and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Director of the award… Read more
Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the last meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Charles Stocking for his talk, titled “Mind, Body, and Athletics in Antiquity: A Brief Cultural History”. As part of a general understanding in Classics, mind/body dualism is largely classified… Read more
Written by Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the December 7, 2020, meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar, in particular, Professor Lisa Raphals (this seminar series’ organizer) for her talk: “Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit: Comparative Semantics.” Raphals presented work from her current project, a comparative study of mind, body, spirit, and… Read more
Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Georgios Xenos is painter and sculptor. He was born in Athens in 1953 and studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts- Section des Arts Plastiques in Paris… Read more
