We are very happy to share our featured CHS Essentials video with Greg Nagy where he is arguing whether or not ancient Greek heroes have the possibility of living with kleos (ancient Greek word for glory and fame) and also gain nostos (ancient Greek word for homecoming; return to light and life). Can heroes beat the odds? Greg Nagy goes on to explore the meaning of the ancient Greek word moira, which… Read more
We are happy to share the following publications that will soon be available through Harvard University Press. Gregory Nagy Masterpieces of Metonymy In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, then metonymy can be seen as a connecting of something familiar with something… Read more
The Fulbright Foundation in Greece | Scholarship opportunity for educators The Fulbright Foundation in Greece will award up to three grants (depending on available funding) to Greek secondary school educators to attend the 2016 Study of the United States Institutes. The Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) is a five-week academic program designed for secondary school educators involved in the teaching of English, as well as professionals in curriculum… Read more
The CHS is pleased to share the online publication of The meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι through its formulas, by Leonard Muellner on the CHS website. The 1976 landmark study based on his dissertation is open to all and free of charge, as well as a number of other publications. Eukhomai had been glossed traditionally as “pray, long for, wish for; vow, promise; boast, brag, vaunt; profess,… Read more
The Center For Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of spring fellow Stéphanie Paul’s paper, “Local Pantheons in Motion: Synoecism and Patron Deities in Hellenistic Rhodes,” which was presented at the 2015 Fellows Research Symposium. See the abstract below. To read the full article, visit the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Bulletin. Abstract This paper addresses some of the limitations of the concept of… Read more
The CHS team is happy to share the news of the International Conference on “The Genres of Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models”, September 24 through 27. The conference, hosted by the Classics Department at Berkeley, will open with a keynote address by Professor Gregory Nagy, on Thursday, September 24 at 7 p.m. Professor Nagy’s talk is entitled “Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited.” The conference is open to… Read more
September 21-26, 2015 This week, Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics Department at Stanford University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Álvarez Rodríguez is working on her postdoctoral project, namely Exclusion and marginalization in the Greek epic. A study on the relations with the otherness in the Iliad. Using… Read more
September 21-26, 2015 This week, Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics Department at Stanford University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Álvarez Rodríguez is working on her postdoctoral project, namely Exclusion and marginalization in the Greek epic. A study on the relations with the otherness in the Iliad. Using the Iliad… Read more
We are pleased to welcome actor, writer, and educator Paul O’Mahony for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today’, which will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 11 a.m. EDT. He introduces the topic as follows: I would like to talk about our reception of classical texts and our approaches to performance—finding new and exciting ways to re-imagine them. I will… Read more
The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective, by José M. González The Center for Hellenic Studies is happy to announce the online publication of The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective, by José M. González on the CHS website. The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully… Read more
