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CFP | Digital Literacies for the Ancient World

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 Hellenic Studies, aims to explore… Read more

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Q&A with Kyle P. Johnson and Luke Hollis of the Classical Language Toolkit

Kyle P. Johnson Luke Hollis The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) has just been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer of Code program for 2016. Through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), post-secondary students aged 18 and older spend their summer learning to code while working for a mentor organization. Over the last 11 years, over 11,000 students have participated in creating open source… Read more

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CHS Announces Summer Abroad Interns for 2016!

The CHS would like to announce the Summer Abroad interns for 2016: Cultural Internship Program – Nafplio, Greece Fougaro, Anthos Library Yanni Metaxas, Boston University, 2017 Christina Vouvaki, Ionion University, 2019 Archaeological Museum of Nafplio Charoula-Maria Fotiadou, University of Ioannina, 2017 Luke Kelly, Harvard University, 2019 Europe Direct Samantha Garin, Harvard University, 2017 Alexandros Theodoridis, Democritus University of Thrace, 2016 Municipal Organization of Culture, Environment,… Read more

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Classical Inquiries | Picturing Homer as a cult hero

Detail of a relief depicting the “Apotheosis of Homer,” attributed to Archelaos of Priene, ca. 225 BCE–205 BCE. In the British Museum. Photo, Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. CHS Director Gregory Nagy recently participated in a panel discussion at the National Gallery of Art with researcher Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard University). The focus of their talk was a bronze head currently on display at the Museum of Fine… Read more

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CHS Open House: Herodotus, with Alexander Hollmann

We are pleased to welcome Alexander Hollmann (University of Washington) for our next Open House discussion, which will be about Herodotus. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 10, at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. His book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories, is available at the CHS website. You can watch this discussion live in the… Read more

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Now Online from Gregory Nagy

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

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Exploring etymologies | A collaborative work between students and professors

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

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Exploring etymologies | A collaborative work between students and professors

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

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CHS Summer Internship in Publications

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