Continuities and Comparisons The Role of Hierarchy in Modern Democracies and their Lein on Ancient Pasts–Greece and Thailand in Transgressive Practice 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 first meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Michael Herzfeld for his talk on the importance of being… Read more
To register for Akis Goumas’ visiting artist presentation taking place on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 11:30 am EDT, please visit the event page. Akis Goumas is a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of mainly ancient crafting technologies of the Aegean region. He was born in Greece in 1952, and, after receiving his Diploma in Economics, he was trained as a goldsmith and later as a silversmith. Read more
A poetic botany? My research aims to answer three interrelated questions: What did the botanical knowledge of the archaic and the classical Greek era look like? How and why did it offer Greek authors of the time convenient ways of thinking (analogically) about other aspects or areas of experience and speculation, such as the body, kinship ties, or society? Ultimately, may all this help us understand how archaic and classical… 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. Matteo Tarasco is a theatre director who has extensively engaged with ancient Greece in his career. Among the most innovative and significant contributions is his investigation of myth from the female… Read more
Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature As a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, I am working on a project entitled Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature. I focus on situating Jewish poetry in Greek both within the world of Hellenistic literature as well as within our understanding of Second Temple Judaism. The study of Jewish literature in Greek is a thoroughly… Read more
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
