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CHS Visiting Scholar | Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow

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

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CHS GR Event: Eleni Papadaki, “The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies. Particularities from the interaction of science and tradition”

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

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CHS Open House: Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece, with Timothy Power

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

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Panel Discussion with Gregory Nagy and Gloria Pinney at the National Gallery of Art

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 more information here: A priestess or a goddess: The Problem of Identity in Some Female Hellenistic Sculptures… Read more

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SCS Conference 2016 | Dialogues with Glynnis Fawkes, Richard Martin, and Suzanne Lye

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 Glynnis Fawkes, Richard Martin, and Suzanne Lye. All of the featured people have exciting stories to share, each from their… Read more

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SCS Conference 2016 | Dialogues with Glynnis Fawkes, Richard Martin, and Suzanne Lye

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 Glynnis Fawkes, Richard Martin, and Suzanne Lye. All of the featured people have exciting stories to share, each from their… Read more

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Now available from HUP | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin

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 king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings… Read more

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Now Available Online from the Hellenic Studies Series!

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, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the controversy that resulted, Joel Kalvesmaki shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and… Read more

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Forthcoming | Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Five Volumes Exploring Particle Use Across Genres, a born-digital publication from the Hellenic Studies Series co-authored by Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen, and Mark de Kreij. This comprehensive work analyzes particle usage across five genres of ancient Greek discourse—epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography—with the aim of exploring communicative strategies, cognitive processes, and the interactional dynamics of language… Read more