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CHS Visiting Scholar | Bruce Robertson, Associate Professor of Classics at Mount Allison University

April 16th-20th, 2016 This week, Dr. Bruce Robertson, Associate Professor of Classics at Mount Allison University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Robertson works on the optical character recognition (OCR) of text images that contain Ancient Greek texts. His website, Lace, includes hundreds of public-domain texts digitized through his techniques, texts that can now be accessed by people worldwide. His goal at the CHS… Read more

Harvard workshop on "Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law and its Reception"

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law and its Reception” to take place at Harvard University, April 22-23. The workshop will bring together scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe to explore the ways in which the law(s) of sale and purchase in the Ancient Greek and Roman world interact with and are affected by economic factors and local customs. Read more

Harvard workshop on “Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law and its Reception”

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law and its Reception” to take place at Harvard University, April 22-23. The workshop will bring together scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe to explore the ways in which the law(s) of sale and purchase in the Ancient Greek and Roman world interact with and are affected by economic factors and local customs. Read more

Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg | Exploring Greece and the beauty of ancient civilization

The CHS team is happy to share the following Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg, former executive assistant for the Center for Hellenic Studies. Jennifer’s duties as a former CHS executive assistant included helping with the organization of the Harvard Alumni Association travel study programs to Greece, led by professor Gregory Nagy, that combine travel with the ancient Greek literature. Participants are not only visiting the ancient sites but also… Read more

Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg | Exploring Greece and the beauty of ancient civilization

The CHS team is happy to share the following Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg, former executive assistant for the Center for Hellenic Studies. Jennifer’s duties as a former CHS executive assistant included helping with the organization of the Harvard Alumni Association travel study programs to Greece, led by professor Gregory Nagy, that combine travel with the ancient Greek literature. Participants are not only visiting the ancient sites but also… Read more

CHS GR Event: George Babiniotis, “Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue”

CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue” Lecturer: George Babiniotis, Professor of Linguistics, former Rector of the University of Athens The event will take place at the Vouleftiko Lecture’s Hall in Nafplio. The lecture will be delivered in Greek. The Events Series 2016 is organized in cooperation… Read more

Micro-Monuments Workshop: Pillars, Columns, Cornerstones: Verticalism in Arts and Philosophy

Workshop Conducted by Artemis Herber Sunday, April 24, 2016 from 11am–4pm Workshop Participation: Free and open to the public; reservation required. RSVP by April 20th, 2016 to events@chs.harvard.edu For directions and visitor information, visit the CHS website. Parking available on-site. The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to invite you to the Micro-Monuments Workshop, presented by Washington Sculptors Group in conjunction with the… Read more

Classical Inquiries | Things noted during five days of travel-study, 2016.03.13–18

Gregory Nagy and the participants of the 2016 Harvard Spring Break travel study program recently completed their trip to Greece. Professor Nagy shares his experience and that of the study group on a day-to-day basis in his posting of 03.24.2016. I tried each day to focus on three things to see—or at least to note if they cannot be seen—at each ancient site we visited. In cases where we visited a… Read more