Hour 25 invites you to learn ancient Greek through peer-supported study groups. Check out the video below to get a preview. There are currently three slots available, so if you are interested in joining, respond to this thread in the Hour 25 Discussion Forum. If you plan on joining a group, or if you just want to learn a bit of ancient Greek on… Read more
This week, Dr. Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Research Fellow at UCL and Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Giannadaki is working on completing her ongoing paper, titled “Meden aprobouleuton? Dem.22 and the management of the Ekklesia business”. This work attempts to reconstruct the controversial legal aspect of the Athenian democratic administration… Read more
This week, Dr. Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Research Fellow at UCL and Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Giannadaki is working on completing her ongoing paper, titled “Meden aprobouleuton? Dem.22 and the management of the Ekklesia business”. This work attempts to reconstruct the controversial legal aspect of the Athenian democratic administration… Read more
The CHS would like to introduce the Greek Studies Series, available in print through Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium, B.C. to the present-not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines… Read more
Exhibition dates: May 27 – October 15, 2016 Opening reception: May 27, 2016, 7-9 pm, Main Building Event : Free and open to the public; reservations required Rsvp: May 21, 2016 to events@chs.harvard.edu Parking: available on-site and on Whitehaven Street, N.W. Directions and Visitor Information Micro-Monuments showcases 32 small-scale sculptures which explore monuments as a universal idea in art. The exhibit features work… Read more
This week, Chas LiBretto, writer and performer at the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently LiBretto is developing a musical-play called Helen and Her Double, which will be an adaptation or ‘sequel’ to Euripides’ play, Helen. Continuing the story of this play, LiBretto will explore the ways in which Helen had to pick up the pieces of her life… Read more
This week, Chas LiBretto, writer and performer at the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently LiBretto is developing a musical-play called Helen and Her Double, which will be an adaptation or ‘sequel’ to Euripides’ play, Helen. Continuing the story of this play, LiBretto will explore the ways in which Helen had to pick up the pieces of her life after… Read more
To Bring Back Victory: Local and Global Aspects of Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics Sumbissions deadline: May 15, 2016 Online Application and Contact Information The International Olympic Academy (IOA), in cooperation with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is organizing the Fifth International Scholars’ Symposium in the “Sports, Society, and Culture” series in Ancient Olympia, July 9–13, 2016. As in previous years, the Symposium… Read more
The Medea “Heroization” Workshop held at CHS, April 7–8 In 2014 members of Hour 25 shared a revised translation of Sophocles’ Antigone that matches and complements the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation as used in HeroesX. Since then, community members have been using this “heroized” translation of Antigone to reach out to high school students in the US and abroad through through the medium of performance. This year Hour 25 members… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., in Kranidi for the following lecture: “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century” Lecturer: Despina Nazou, Social Anthropologist – Lecturer/Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean Respondent: Andreas Nikolovgenis, Architecture, M.Arch II, Harvard GSD The event will take place at the Lecture’s Hall of the General Lyceum… Read more
