The Center for Hellenic Studies, in association with Govinda Gallery, is pleased to announce SapphoFest 2015, three days of art and discussion celebrating the songs of Sappho, fifty years of Donovan's poetry and music, and Donovan's Sapphographs. Read more
Join us on Saturday, December 5 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 live chat… Read more
This week, Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Piccinini aims to complete her book, titled Ancient Religious Mobility: The Oracular Shrine of Dodona. This work is to be a comprehensive study of the shrine of Dodona and will include a diachronic virtual map of the visiting… Read more
This week, Dr. Jessica Piccinini, Onassis Fellowship Recipient and lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Vienna, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Piccinini aims to complete her book, titled Ancient Religious Mobility: The Oracular Shrine of Dodona. This work is to be a comprehensive study of the shrine of Dodona and will include a diachronic virtual map of the visiting… Read more
Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 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 the Greek course and another for the Latin course, in order to develop the course syllabi. The 2016 courses will emphasize team-teaching. All participants will receive a stipend. The… Read more
Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 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 the Greek course and another for the Latin course, in order to develop the course syllabi. The 2016 courses will emphasize team-teaching. All participants will receive a stipend. The application… Read more
“The poetry of Virgil, I take it as a given, rivals that of Homer. Historically, Virgil the Classic even displaced Homer the Classic in the Latin culture of the Roman empire (though not in the Greek) – already in the age of Virgil. But the question is: what is it exactly about the poetry of Virgil that made it rival the poetry of Homer in the first… Read more
Dates: March 4-6, 2016 This spring, the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek 4th Century Literature or Latin Neronian Literature 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 gain perspectives from their peers and faculty representing a range of institutions. Read more
Nov. 7-14th This week, Dr. Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Emmanuela Bakola is working on a chapter entitled, “‘Aeschylus’, earth and the cult of the tomb: a case of fifth-century reception?”. Using key passages from Aristophanes’ Frogs, she argues that 5th-century audiences were aware of the… Read more
Nov. 7-14th This week, Dr. Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Emmanuela Bakola is working on a chapter entitled, “‘Aeschylus’, earth and the cult of the tomb: a case of fifth-century reception?”. Using key passages from Aristophanes’ Frogs, she argues that 5th-century audiences were aware of the… Read more
