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CHS Visiting Scholar | Maria Kazanskaya, PhD at Université Paris-Sorbonne

This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While at the CHS, Dr. Kazanskaya will work on her book on speeches… Read more

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CHS Visiting Scholar | Maria Kazanskaya, PhD at Université Paris-Sorbonne

This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While at the CHS, Dr. Kazanskaya will work on her book on speeches and… Read more

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CHS GR Event: Fay Zika, “Ecology and economy: the garden as cosmos and a microcosm”

CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “Ecology and economy: the garden as cosmos and a microcosm” Lecturer: Fay Zika, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Art, Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts Respondent: Eleana Yalouri, Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Political Sciences, Panteion University The event… Read more

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Coming Soon Online from the Hellenic Studies Series

We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of these two books from the Hellenic Studies Series at the CHS website: Pepper, Timothy, editor, A Californian Hymn to Homer Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of looking at texts, both… Read more

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Spring Fellows at the Center for Hellenic Studies!

The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend a warm welcome to our Spring 2016 Fellows! Please allow us to introduce them: Cédric Brélaz (PhD University of Lausanne, Dr. habil. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. He was Member of the Swiss Institute in Rome, Foreign Member of the French School of Archaeology at Athens and Visiting… Read more

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Now Available Online | The Singer Resumes the Tale

Now available in open-access, full-text edition in the curated books section of the CHS website: The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord Long before writing was invented, people told stories and sang songs. But how is an oral poem composed? How is it transmitted beyond its circle of listeners to future generations? One of the preeminent folklorists of his time, Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) here continues… Read more

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CHS Open House: Performance Traditions in Greece, with Panayotis Fragkiskos League

Hour 25 welcomes Panayotis Fragkiskos League, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology of Harvard University, for a discussion on CHS Open House. The video discussion will be on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. The topic of this ‘Open House’ is ‘Performance Traditions in Greece.’ You can watch the event below or on the event page. Members of the… Read more

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Call for Abstracts | Ex Ionia Scientia ‒ ‘Knowledge’ in Archaic Greece

                                    International Conference in Athens, Greece 12 ‒ 14 December 2016 The origins of western science and philosophy are customarily traced to 6th century B.C.E. Ionia, to Thales of Miletos and the school he founded, whose famous pupils included not only the Milesians Anaximander and Anaximenes, but also Pythagoras of Samos, Bias… Read more

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An open dialogue with the Derveni Papyrus

The Derveni Papyrus | Greece’s oldest known literary text The Derveni Papyrus, dated between 340 and 320 B.C., is considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century. Uncovered in 1962 in a tomb in an uninhabited area about 10 km north of Thessaloniki, the papyrus had been intended for the funeral… Read more