We are happy to share news of a historic event in dance in Washington, DC: a performance of Isadora Duncan dances at the Center for Hellenic Studies! Saturday, April 16 Outdoor Dance Performances 3-5pm Dances of Nature, Love & Friendship by Isadora Duncan featuring the Duncan Dance Project & local guest dancers Panel Discussion 5:30-6:30pm “Ancient, Modern, Now: An Exploration… Read more
We are happy to share news of a historic event in dance in Washington, DC: a performance of Isadora Duncan dances at the Center for Hellenic Studies! Saturday, April 16 Outdoor Dance Performances 3-5pm Dances of Nature, Love & Friendship by Isadora Duncan featuring the Duncan Dance Project & local guest dancers Panel Discussion 5:30-6:30pm “Ancient, Modern, Now: An Exploration… Read more
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
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Ligourio for the following lecture: “Tragedy as a universal good in the Greco-Roman world” Lecturer: Ioanna Karamanou, Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Theatre Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese Respondent: Maria Mikedaki, Assistant Professor in Architecture and Scene Painting of Ancient Theatre, Theatre Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese The event… Read more
This week, Dr. Nina Coppolino, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Connecticut, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Coppolino is working on a project that examines the concept of ethos, or the characteristic spirit of society, that is presented in ancient classical sources. By utilizing authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Euripides and Aristophanes, she argues that… Read more
This week, Dr. Nina Coppolino, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Connecticut, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Coppolino is working on a project that examines the concept of ethos, or the characteristic spirit of society, that is presented in ancient classical sources. By utilizing authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Euripides and Aristophanes, she argues that… Read more
On Saturday, January 23, 2016, the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning, organized a joint educational workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece on “The concept of the hero in antiquity and its diachronic evolution. An important educational tool.” Professors Gregory Nagy, Ioannis Petropoulos, Leonard Muellner, and Keith Stone presented their work on “Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to the Hero at Harvard and other universities” to… Read more
We are pleased to welcome Susan T. Edmunds for our next Open House discussion, which will be about weaving. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 24, at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded. Her article, Picturing Homeric Weaving, is available at the CHS website. For the live stream event, other resources related to this event and for a discussion with community… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “The universality of Great Alexander’s myth in space and time” Lecturer: Maria Kampouri-Vamvoukou, Professor, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Respondent: Vangelis Maladakis, Doctor in Byzantine Archaeology The event will take place at the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplio. Read more
Digital Literacies for the Ancient World A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016 Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016 Guidelines: https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386 This volume of Classics@, an open-access journal of the Center for… Read more
