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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside | Body, Mind, Spirit, and Soul: Comparative Semantics

Written by Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the December 7, 2020, meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar, in particular, Professor Lisa Raphals (this seminar series’ organizer) for her talk: “Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit: Comparative Semantics.” Raphals presented work from her current project, a comparative study of mind, body, spirit, and… Read more

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CHS Visiting Artist | Georgios Xenos

Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Georgios Xenos is painter and sculptor. He was born in Athens in 1953 and studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts- Section des Arts Plastiques in Paris… Read more

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2020 Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies | Nikos Tsivikis

An Early End of Antiquity in Roman Provincial Greece: Pagans and Christians in the wake of the earthquake in Messene in 365 CE What did it mean to live in a Roman provincial city of the Peloponnese in the middle of the 4th century? How did the Constantinian ‘revolution’ affect the lives and ideas of people who resided equally far away from the old capital of Rome and the new… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University | Holism, Sympathy, and Organism in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy

Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the fourth meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Brooke Holmes for her talk, titled “Holism, Sympathy, and Organism in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy.” Holmes’s presentation was part of a larger book project she is working on… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Professor Michael Puett, Harvard University | Souls, Spirits, and Other Stuff: Thinking about the Mind and Body from a Comparative Perspective

Written by Alba Curry and Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the third meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Michael Puett for his talk, titled “Souls, Spirits, and Other Stuff: Thinking about the Mind and Body from a Comparative Perspective.” Puett began by noting that… Read more

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The MASt@CHS project

Written by Rachele Pierini Hosted by the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, MASt is a new project aiming to boost discussion and debate among specialists on topics and problems in Bronze Age Aegean studies and then to disseminate the latest results to the wider audience of classicists. To achieve this, the MASt project has designed a twofold strategy: specialist seminars up to 20 participants and substantial reports on the online… Read more

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Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth Revised by the Seven Against Thebes Heroization team (Hélène Emeriaud, Kelly Lambert, Janet M. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Keith DeStone) The Acropolis of Thebes, in which stand altars and images of various divinities. A large gathering of citizens of Thebes. Enter Eteokles with attendants. Eteokles Men of Kadmos’s city [polis], he who guards from the stern the concerns of the… Read more

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Call for Papers: 5000 Years of Comments

The Development of Commentary from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Age of Information August 7-10, 2018 Sponsored and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies Organized by Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University) and Jacqueline Vayntrub (Brandeis University) Commentary on the written word is nearly as old as writing itself and has developed alongside scholarship, literature and the writing cultures in critical and influential ways. As an activity,… Read more

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MicroMonuments Workshop

Pillars, Columns, Cornerstones: Verticalism in Arts and Philosophy Workshop Conducted by Artemis Herber Sunday, April 24, 2016 from 11am–4pm Workshop Participation: Free and open to the public; reservation required. RSVP by April 20th, 2016 to events@chs.harvard.edu Parking available on-site. This workshop is presented by the Washington Sculptors Group in collaboration with the… Read more

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Upcoming Visiting Scholars

The following researchers received a visiting scholar grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies and will visit Washington, DC during the spring 2016 term. The award includes housing on the CHS campus in Washington, DC for six nights and travel support. For more information, view the program description. February Laura Jansen (Princeton University) Maria Kazanskaya (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Gonda… Read more