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
The cognitive interface between musician and god, instrument and player 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 (and much more). Kinyras increased in depth and… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) for our next CHS Open House discussion, on Thursday, October 22 at 11 a.m. EDT, when we will be talking about ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’ which was originally given as a keynote talk… Read more
The Center For Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of spring fellow Eric Kansa’s paper, “Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology,” which was presented at the 2015 Fellows Research Symposium. See the abstract below. To read the full article, visit the Center… Read more
Featured research on The Brothers Song and “Sappho’s sisterly identity” “What would be so delightful about songs expressing an aristocratic woman’s tormented feelings about a brother who squandered his family’s wealth on a courtesan in Egypt?” In an attempt to answer this question, Gregory Nagy comments on the… Read more
Το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών (Ελλάδος), Πανεπιστήμιο Harvard και η Ερευνητική ομάδα Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, συνδιοργανώνουν την ακόλουθη ημερίδα: Ο Απουλήιος στο Ναύπλιο Επίσημη παρουσίαση δύο πρόσφατων εκδόσεων για το έργο του Απουλήιου Παρασκευή, 16 Οκτωβρίου, 10:00 π.μ. Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, Αίθουσα Διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου… Read more
The Center For Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of spring fellow Madalina Dana’s paper, “Connecting People: Mobility and Networks in the Corpus of Greek Private Letters,” which was presented at the 2015 Fellows Research Symposium. See the abstract below. To read the full article, visit… Read more
In this week’s featured CHS Essentials video, Greg Nagy talks about the body of poetry. The word ‘body’ is very important in its use, in that it conveys something that is not just systematic but is also alive; just like oral poetry. Oral poetry comes alive in performance. How does the word… Read more
