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… 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. 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… 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),… 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 more
CHS Director Gregory Nagy (Harvard) and Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard) are giving two presentations at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, today, February 18, at 3:30 p.m. EST and next Thursday, February 25, on two different topics. Both events are free and open to the public. Find… Read more
The CHS team and staff was very happy to be at the SCS conference once again this year, where friends from the wider CHS community had a chance to meet, discuss and exchange updates on their careers and recent research progress. We are sharing the three following videos below featuring… Read more
The CHS team and staff was very happy to be at the SCS conference once again this year, where friends from the wider CHS community had a chance to meet, discuss and exchange updates on their careers and recent research progress. We are sharing the three following videos below featuring… Read more
We are very pleased to announce that Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin is available for purchase in print from Harvard University Press, and will be available online shortly on the CHS website. Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary… Read more
We are very pleased to share the recent additions to our online publications from the Hellenic Studies Series. Joel Kalvesmaki, The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God,… Read more
