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
September 14–20, 2015 This week, Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London will be staying at the CHS and using the library. She is currently in the process of completing her book, Playing the Chorus: Greek Tragedy Beyond the Choral Ode. By exploring its activities beyond the singing of odes, Andújar aims to prove that the tragic chorus… Read more
September 14–20, 2015 This week, Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London will be staying at the CHS and using the library. She is currently in the process of completing her book, Playing the Chorus: Greek Tragedy Beyond the Choral Ode. By exploring its activities beyond the singing of odes, Andújar aims to prove that the tragic chorus was a… Read more
Now that the application period for 2016-17 CHS Fellowships has opened, we would like to draw the attention of interested scholars to an innovative project from the last Fellowship season, a first in the Center’s history: a paper conceived, researched, and written together by two Fellows, Alberto Quiroga-Puertas and Ryan Fowler. The paper, “Silence and Rumor as Rhetorical Strategies in Basil’s Letters” in CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 1 (2014),… Read more
