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Now Available Online | Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām

Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām, by M. Rahim Shayegan The Center for Hellenic Studies  is pleased to announce the online publication of Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām, by M. Rahim Shayegan, on the CHS website. The work is available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Vasso Kindi, “Discipline and Imagination as conditions for innovation in science and art”

CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 8:00 p.m., in Kranidi for the following lecture: “Discipline and Imagination as conditions for innovation in science and art” Lecturer: Vasso Kindi, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Respondent: Kostas Markou, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The lecture… Read more

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Now Available Online | Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia

Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia, by Daniel L. Schwartz on the CHS website. The work is available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. It analyzes… Read more

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Summer Workshop on Ancient Greek Graffiti

The Ancient Graffiti Project | A week-long workshop focused on the Greek graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum The CHS team is pleased to announce the Ancient Graffiti Project, a week-long workshop focused on the Greek graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum, to take place August 3-7, 2015, hosted at the Center for Hellenic Studies, in Washington DC. The Ancient Graffiti Project (ancientgraffiti.wlu.edu) aims… Read more

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CHS Open House: ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’, with Yiannis Petropoulos

CHS Open House: ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’, with Yiannis Petropoulos We are pleased to welcome Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, to our next CHS Open House, April 30 at 11am EDT, to discuss ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’. He introduces the topic: Liberally populating ancient Greek poetry, monsters cannot be taken for granted and should not be treated as preposterous… Read more

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India and Greece | Four Comparative Approaches

The CHS team is happy to announce the publication of Classics@12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece. This online volume contains papers comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece. The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with the Embassy of India. “India and Greece, four comparative approaches: An evening of conversation with four… Read more

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India and Greece | Four Comparative Approaches

The CHS team is happy to announce the publication of Classics@12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece. This online volume contains papers comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece. The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with the Embassy of India. “India and Greece, four comparative approaches: An evening of conversation with four… Read more

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Κέντρο Οδυσσειακών Σπουδών | Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame, Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Mattei Athena Louvre, under Wikimedia Commons Ο Douglas Frame, διακεκριμένος μελετητής του ομηρικού έπους και διεθνώς γνωστός, μεταξύ άλλων, για τα βιβλία του The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (1978) και  Hippota Nestor (2010), θα δώσει μια διάλεξη με θέμα «Η Αθηνά στη χώρα των Φαιάκων» (“Athena among… Read more

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Κέντρο Οδυσσειακών Σπουδών | Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame, Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Mattei Athena Louvre, under Wikimedia Commons Ο Douglas Frame, διακεκριμένος μελετητής του ομηρικού έπους και διεθνώς γνωστός, μεταξύ άλλων, για τα βιβλία του The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (1978) και  Hippota Nestor (2010), θα δώσει μια διάλεξη με θέμα «Η Αθηνά στη χώρα των Φαιάκων» (“Athena among the… Read more

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CHS Summer Interns for 2015!

The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to announce the Summer Interns for 2015: The Summer Internship in Washington, DC Publications James Skoog, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2017 Natalia Sucher, Swarthmore College, 2016 Curricular Development Emily Kohut, Colorado College, 2016 Giuliana Savini, Wake Forest University, 2017 Henry Schott, Rhodes College 2017 The Cultural Internship in Nafplio, Greece Anthos Library, Fugaro Joshua Allbright, Boston University,… Read more