We are delighted to welcome Olga M. Davidson for a CHS Open House discussion on Thursday, November 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST when she will be talking about why she went on from Homer to Ferdowsi, and introducing his epic Shāhnāma. In her book Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings:… Read more
What do Hesiodic and Homeric poetry understand by ‘monsters’? Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, attempts to answer this question:… Read more
CHS Research Symposium You are invited to attend the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium on Saturday, December 5 from 2:00-5:30pm (EST). The following fellows will present their research: Peter Agócs (University College London) Talking Song in Early Greek Poetry Rodney Ast (University of Heidelberg)… Read more
October 22-27th This week, Dr. Heather Waddell Gruber, associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Concordia College, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Gruber is working on developing a digital text of the complete fragments of Sappho, as her texts are… Read more
October 22-27th This week, Dr. Heather Waddell Gruber, associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Concordia College, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Gruber is working on developing a digital text of the complete fragments of Sappho, as her texts are not… Read more
We are in the heart of the fall season of CHS Open House discussions. These are the discussions that have taken place so far: Casey Dué, University of Houston ‘The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age’ Paul O’Mahony, actor, writer, and educator ‘The Power of Performance:… Read more
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here. … Read more
October 19-25, 2015 This week, Dr. Edmund Richardson, lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Richardson is working on completing his second monograph, Alexandrias: Misdirection and the Making of History. Using 19th and 20th century… Read more
October 19-25, 2015 This week, Dr. Edmund Richardson, lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Richardson is working on completing his second monograph, Alexandrias: Misdirection and the Making of History. Using 19th and 20th century… Read more
Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson The CHS team is very pleased to announce the online publication of Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson on the CHS website. (available for purchase in print through… Read more
