I have had the pleasure of spending the past two months here in Washington, DC working as a curricular development summer intern at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS). I have come to know scholars, staff members, and other undergraduates who have all made their way to CHS in order to connect and interact with the classical world. The environment in which I was raised instilled a sense… Read more
Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamiliar for something familiar, then metonymy can be seen as a connecting… Read more
Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 27 July 2015 The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online is now available. Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has launched a cutting-edge new dictionary for the study of Ancient Greek on its online dictionaries platform. Franco Montanari’s Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the most modern and complete dictionary for the study of Ancient Greek currently on the market. Based on the… Read more
Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National… Read more
Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National Gallery,… Read more
VISIT OF THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES TEAM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY TO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE Advancing collaboration between the National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (CHS), Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center in Washington and Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard, and Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for… Read more
Hour 25 Community Reading Medea, Euripides Thursday, July 23 @11:00 a.m. EDT [Nurse] Would that the Argo had never winged its way to the land of Colchis through the dark-blue Symplegades! Would that the pine trees had never been felled in the glens of Mount Pelion and furnished oars for the hands [5] of the heroes who at Pelias’ command set forth in quest of the Golden… Read more
PARTICIPATION OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM “SPORTS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE”, ORGANIZED ANNUALLY BY THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY AND THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Within the framework of the collaboration between the National Library of Greece (NLG—Greek acronym: EBE) and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (CHS), the NLG was invited by… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies has compiled a collection of short, topic driven videos for your viewing pleasure called CHS Essentials. This series of videos is comprised of clips from the CHS open house discussions as well as discussions and interviews with different members of the classics community. The CHS Essential videos can be found on YouTube either under the CHS channel or when you search CHS… Read more
INAUGURATION OF THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE AND THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY DONATION OF THE HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), within the framework of its collaboration with the National Library of Greece (Greek acronym: EBE), has donated to the Library a complete series of its publications, the Hellenic Studies Series. The CHS publishes works… Read more
