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
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
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
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 scholars”… Read more
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
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
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
The CHS team is happy to announce that the following best sellers from Harvard University Press are available online for free at the CHS website! Averil Cameron Dialoguing in Late Antiquity Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic. Dialoguing in Late Antiquity takes up a challenge laid down by recent scholars who argue… Read more
Join us on Friday, April 24 for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream will be available at https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html. No special software is required. Persons interested in watching the stream should click on the link above and the stream will play in their web browser. Have questions for the presenters? Contact us via the online form or the … Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “Fantasy and realism for creation” Lecturer: Alexandros K. Samaras, Architect, Founding member, Honorary President of the Harvard Club of Greece, Founding and lifelong member, General Secretary of the Hellenic Harvard Foundation Respondent: Alkistis Rodi, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Patras The lecture will be delivered (in… Read more
