Two of Professor Nagy’s most recent articles have become available under the online publication Short Writings Volume IV, the fourth volume in a series of online anthologies, all available online for free at the CHS website. “Herodotus and the Logioi of the Persians” This essay discusses the term logioi, as this is encountered in all the Herodotean contexts. Nagy argues that logioi is a term referring… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Dates: June 1-July 31, 2016 Deadline for Applications: April 1, 2016 Deadline for Recommendations: April 8, 2016 As part of its mission of bringing together a variety of research interests centered on Hellenic civilization and sharing them with a wider audience, the Center for Hellenic Studies publishes books, journals, proceedings of colloquia, discussions, databases, lectures, and other materials, both online and in print. The Center for… Read more
Head of a Bearded God, first century BC, bronze, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Today, February 25, at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, Gregory Nagy and Gloria Ferrari Pinney are holding a panel discussion on “A poet or a god: The Iconography of Certain Bearded Male Bronzes.” This is the… Read more
In February 2016 the award ceremony for the 12th annual Harvard Office of International Education (OIE) photo contest took place at Harvard. Eligible contestants must have participated in Harvard’s programs abroad. The Center for Hellenic Studies participated in the contest by awarding one prize and honorable mentions to students that took photos during the past year in Greece. Frank DuBose received the CHS prize for the best picture… Read more
This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new series of monographs by Bloomsbury Publishing on Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. Her… Read more
This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new series of monographs by Bloomsbury Publishing on Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. Her other… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies. Particularities from the interaction of science and tradition” Lecturer: Eleni Papadaki, Professor of Haematology & Head of Department of Haematology PAGNI (University Hospital), School of Medicine, University of Crete Respondent: Leda Karagiannopoulou, Psychologist, MSc (Postgraduate Studies Program in Health Psychology, Department of Psychology,… Read more
We are pleased to welcome Timothy Power (Rutgers University) for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece’. This event will be streamed live on Thursday February 25, at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. To prepare for the event, you might like to read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Timothy Power’s book The Culture of Kitharôidia, available for free… Read more
