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Sunoikisis Seminar | Common Day

Between the planning seminars for the upcoming Literature of the Late Republic and Greek Comedy courses, the participants all gathered to discuss other aspects of the Sunoikisis program and innovations in online education. This common day was led by Dr. Ryan Fowler (CHS Sunoikisis Fellow in Curricular Development) and Prof. Kenny Morrell (Director of Fellowships and Curricular Development). The Common Day started with a review of Sunoikisis’ activities during the… Read more

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CHS Fall Internship in Washington, DC

Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD) Internship Fall Semester, 2014 The application for this internship is now closed. The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), a research institution devoted to the study of all aspects of ancient Hellenic civilization, seeks an intern to assist the Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD) team for the fall semester of 2014. Note: The CHS also offers summer internships. Because the FCD intern will… Read more

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Sunoikisis Seminar | Latin Literature of the Late Republic

Salvete! The members of the Center for Hellenic Studies would like to express their thanks and appreciation to all the participants in the 2014 Sunoikisis Latin Course Development Seminar. It was a pleasure to watch as participants created a course that will no doubt challenge and inspire students this coming fall. This year we were pleased to have 16 professors from across the country join us for this summer’s… Read more

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Sunoikisis Seminar | Latin Literature of the Late Republic

Salvete! The members of the Center for Hellenic Studies would like to express their thanks and appreciation to all the participants in the 2014 Sunoikisis Latin Course Development Seminar. It was a pleasure to watch as participants created a course that will no doubt challenge and inspire students this coming fall. This year we were pleased to have 16 professors from across the country join us for this summer’s Latin… Read more

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Empowering Student Researchers | Inspiring Future Librarians

Information Fluency Workshop 2014 A group of undergraduates, armed with new research strategies! July 8th marked the beginning of the Center for Hellenic Studies’ second workshop on information fluency in classics. Each of the seminar’s sessions covered a different aspect of gathering and communicating information, including research strategies, critical assessment of sources, social media, and copyright. The students were also introduced to a variety of resources to help them… Read more

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Empowering Student Researchers | Inspiring Future Librarians

Information Fluency Workshop 2014 A group of undergraduates, armed with new research strategies! July 8th marked the beginning of the Center for Hellenic Studies’ second workshop on information fluency in classics. Each of the seminar’s sessions covered a different aspect of gathering and communicating information, including research strategies, critical assessment of sources, social media, and copyright. The students were also introduced to a variety of resources to help them research… Read more

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Neron Kaisar the Opera: Performing Epic into the 21st Century

The entirety of “Incipit,” the first scene of NERON KAISAR, a poetic opera by John Peel, with libretto in Greek, Latin and English by M. D. Usher (see www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org), will be performed in Oxford (UK) at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Hall, St. Hilda’s College, in conjunction with the Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama’s colloquium “Performing Epic into the 21st Century.” For more… Read more

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Apply Now for 2015-16 Fellowships

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), a research institution devoted to the study of all aspects of ancient Hellenic civilization, offers the following fellowship opportunities for the 2015-16 academic year. Researchers may apply for both programs using the same online application form (https://wp.chs.harvard.edu/chs-forms/fellowship-application/). CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies Deadline: October 15, 2014 Fellows are appointed for a term of up to eighteen weeks in the fall (Monday,… Read more

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The Garland of Ariadne

Hercules and Corona Borealis as depicted in Urania’s Mirror, by Sidney Hall, c. 1825 (Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) According to many multiforms of the Ariadne myth, Dionysus places Ariadne’s garland in the sky as immortal compensation and memory for the heroine. Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.176-182 (trans. C. Filos) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) Desertae et multa querenti amplexus et opem Liber tulit; utque… Read more