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
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Empty clothes: El Greco and the body” Lecturer: Konstantinos Ioannides, Assistant Professor, Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts Respondent: Eleni Filippaki, Αssociate Lecturer in European Civilization, The Hellenic Open University The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s… Read more
We are pleased to welcome Douglas Frame, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Echoes of the Indo-European Twin Gods in Sanskrit and Greek Epic: Arjuna and Achilles’ on Thursday, June 4 at 11:00 a.m EDT. You can watch the Live broadcast via the frame below, or at the event page on Google + here. To prepare for this conversation, participants might like… Read more
We are pleased to welcome James N. Stone, educator, psychologist, and translator, for the first of two sessions on the poetry of Sappho. This discussion will be on Thursday, May 28 at 4 p.m. EDT. He introduces this first session as follows: This presentation offers a multi-dimensional show and tell of a celebrated archaic poet, a woman famous in her time (~650BC) whose poems come to us in fragile condition,… Read more
Ephebe’s Journey III Friday, July 31-Saturday, August 1, 2015 The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the… Read more
Ephebe’s Journey III Friday, July 31-Saturday, August 1, 2015 The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 8:00 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “Where do stories come from?” Lecturer: Apostolos Doxiadis, Author Respondent: Lefteris Kalospiros, Author, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the Auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce of the Argolid, 23 Korinthou Street, in Argos. Read more
Τὰ ξένια: La cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina, by Angela Cinalli The CHS Team is happy to share some exciting news from Angela Cinalli, CHS Fellow in Greek Epigraphy. Professor Cinalli has just published her latest book, Τὰ ξένια: La cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina (English translation, “Ta xenia: the ceremony of city hospitality.”) The book is an open access publication from Sapienza Università Editrice. In it, Angela Cinalli reconstructs the steps of the ceremony through which Greek cities… Read more
Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations, by Aaron Johnson and Jeremy Schott, eds. The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations, by Aaron Johnson and Jeremy Schott, eds. on the CHS website. The work is available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous contributors to… Read more
