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Now Available Online | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition, by Albert Bates Lord

We are pleased to share the news that Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is now available in electronic form, for free, on the CHS website. In the Introduction, Lord writes: Scope alone, however impressive, and performance alone, however spectacular it may be, constitute but the outward trappings of the study of oral-traditional epic song. It is the singer and what is sung that count. They are… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna

This week, Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Piccinini aims to complete her book, titled Ancient Religious Mobility: The Oracular Shrine of Dodona. This work is to be a comprehensive study of the shrine of Dodona and will include a diachronic virtual map of the visiting… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna

This week, Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Piccinini aims to complete her book, titled Ancient Religious Mobility: The Oracular Shrine of Dodona. This work is to be a comprehensive study of the shrine of Dodona and will include a diachronic virtual map of the visiting… Read more

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Sunoikisis | Faculty Development and Internships at CHS

Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for the Greek course and another for the Latin course, in order to develop the course syllabi. The 2016 courses will emphasize team-teaching. All participants will receive a stipend. The… Read more

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Sunoikisis | Faculty Development and Internships at CHS

Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for the Greek course and another for the Latin course, in order to develop the course syllabi. The 2016 courses will emphasize team-teaching. All participants will receive a stipend. The application… Read more

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Now Available Online | The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics

The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song… Read more

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CHS GR Event: Josiah Ober, “Τhe Rise and Fall of Classical Greece”

Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 18 Νοεμβρίου, 2015 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην πρώτη διάλεξη της εφετινής σειράς εκδηλώσεων Events Series 2015-2016 με θέμα: «Η Άνοδος και η Πτώση της Κλασικής Ελλάδας» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University & Leventis Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh Συνομιλητής: Νικόλαος Κυριαζής, Καθηγητής, πρώην Πρόεδρος, Τμήμα Οικονομικών Επιστημών, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας & Επισκέπτης Ερευνητής, Κέντρο Διεθνών Σχέσεων, Πανεπιστήμιο Harvard… Read more

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Apply Now for the CHS and Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Dates: March 4-6, 2016 This spring, the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek 4th Century Literature or Latin Neronian Literature in a workshop setting. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their work in progress, develop ideas, collect bibliographical suggestions, and gain perspectives from their peers and faculty representing a range of institutions. Read more