This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 17 Δεκεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Princeton, ΗΠΑ Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Read more
Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks… Read more
Join us now for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream is available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with VLC Media Player or Quicktime 7. To connect via VLC, go to File > Open Network and paste the link… Read more
Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato, by Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré The CHS is pleased to announce the first ever publication of Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré’s 1920 dissertation Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato. This text offers an in-depth and enlightening analysis of the concept of τέχνη in Plato. Jeffré’s thesis was approved for publication… Read more
The Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOCs with multimedia annotations (III Workshop internacional sobre Creación de MOOC con anotaciones multimedia) has published the pre-print versions of its proceedings from March 2014. The initiative that universities like Harvard, MIT and Stanford launched in 2012 with… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce that The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy is now available online on the CHS website. Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the… Read more
EVENTS SERIES 2014-2015 Ξεκίνησε στις 19 Νοεμβρίου η σειρά εκδηλώσεων του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, “Events Series 2015”. Η θεματική της φετινής σειράς είναι: “Η Φαντασία στην Επιστήμη και την Τέχνη” Το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών συμπράττει κάθε χρόνο με διαφόρους φορείς στον σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση των εκδηλώσεων. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron is now available online on the CHS website! Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture… Read more
We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive… Read more
