CHS Open House series of 2016 would like to invite you all to the first gathering of the year on January 14 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Jacqueline Vayntrub, who is NECL Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard, 2015–2016, will be the visiting scholar. The discussion topic is The… Read more
The CHS will be at the AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco! You’re invited to the CHS Reception at the annual meeting which will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016,from 9 to 11pm. The address of the venue is: Union Square 14, Hilton San Francisco. Would you like to find out more about… Read more
“Not only every Homerist, but every scholar wishing to understand the roots of culture will read it eagerly. It is a deep well, and a heady draft.”—Barry B. Powell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review We are very happy to announce the forthcoming online publication of The Singer Resumes the Tale,… Read more
This past year has been filled with events and activities at both CHS campuses in Washington, DC and Nafplio, Greece, online discussions and dialogues in a friendly environment, and lots of additions on the CHS free online publications. Take a minute to explore with us the highlights of 2015 at… Read more
With the fifth version of the HeroesX project opening on Jan. 6, we would like to reflect upon the hero and heroic tradition. In the featured video, Gregory Nagy talks about the suffering of heroes in an attempt to elaborate on the choice of violent ends for… Read more
Registration is now open for the latest session of “The Ancient Greek Hero,” a groundbreaking open, online project from HarvardX that uses Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) technology to introduce participants to the literature and heroes of ancient Greece. Read more
Congratulations to Joshua Billings, a current fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies, who has been awarded the 2015 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for his book Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2014). Joshua Billings (DPhil Oxford) is… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies and Sunoikisis announce the 2016 Archaeological Program at Kenchreai, the port of Corinth in southern Greece. Scholarship support will be awarded to applicants on the basis of merit. This four-week summer program introduces students to the archaeology, history and culture of Greece through… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies, in association with Govinda Gallery, is pleased to announce SapphoFest 2015, three days of art and discussion celebrating the songs of Sappho, fifty years of Donovan's poetry and music, and Donovan's Sapphographs. Read more
Detail from Attic krater attributed to the Brygos painter, 480-470 BCE. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel. “A diachronic as well as synchronic approach to the songmaking of Sappho” by Gregory Nagy In his posting Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena, Gregory Nagy argues that the art of Sappho’s songmaking can… Read more
