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Apply Now | Course Planning Seminars 2015

Summer Seminars 2015 Latin Literature from the Neronian Period Dates: June 6-9, 2015 Consultant: James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE Dates: June 11-14, 2015 Consultant: Hakan Tell (Dartmouth College) Overview Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C.* to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for… Read more

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Now Available Online – The Singer of Tales

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website. Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in the Yugoslavia of 1933–35. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry to further understand how… Read more

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Upcoming Symposium – Undergraduate Research Symposium

Application Deadline: December 19, 2014 Apply Now! Undergraduate Research Symposium Dates: March 5-6, 2015 Overview This spring, the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek comedy or Latin literature of the Late Republic in a workshop setting. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their work in progress, develop ideas, collect bibliographical suggestions, and… Read more

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New CHS Publication – Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India by Shubha Pathak through Harvard University Press. The central character of Divine Yet Human Epics is the developing conception of epic itself. Its story unfolds as the ancient Greek idea of epic originates with Pindar and Herodotus on the basis of the Iliad and Odyssey. While this notion… Read more

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Forthcoming Publication – Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy by Andrea Capra in December 2014 through Harvard University Press. Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato’s most self-referential dialogue, and Plato’s reference to four… Read more

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours: Cult of Heroes

Registration is now open for Module 3 of the Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Hours 12-15), “Cult of Heroes”, on edX. HUM 2.3x., the third of five modules in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, “Hours 12-15: Cult of Heroes” explores the vast variety of perspectives brought to bear on the idea of the ancient Greek hero in the versatile medium of prose, as exemplified by authors as varied as… Read more

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Forthcoming Publication – Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur in December 2014 through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository imperative of philosophical argument. It is now common for mainstream classicists and philosophers to… Read more

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CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies

Deadline: October 15, 2014 Link to online application: https://wp.chs.harvard.edu/chs-forms/fellowship-application/ The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers fellowships to scholars working on the ancient Greek world in all its varieties, for example, in the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, literary criticism, philology, philosophy, pedagogical applications, reception, and interdisciplinary studies. Fellows are appointed for a term of up to eighteen weeks in the fall (Monday, August 24, 2015… Read more

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CHS Open House: Within the Kyklos ‘Whose Plan is This?’ with Efimia D Karakantza & Justin Arft

The Hour 25 Community is happy to welcome Efimia D. Karakantza (University of Patras, Greece), and Justin Arft (University of Missouri) for an Open House discussion: ‘Within the Kyklos: Whose plan is this? Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and Odyssey’. This open discussion is taking place within the Kyklos, the intergenerational project of the CHS focusing on the Greek Epic Cycle and its interface with other genres, namely… Read more