In July, Dartmouth College published a profile of Hakan Tell, a former CHS fellow and author of Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists. Earlier this summer, he served as a consultant for the Sunoikisis course planning seminar on Plato’s Alcibiades. Read more at Darthmouth Now. In an article published this month, Franklin and Marshall College featured Jacob Lichtblau, a presenter at the Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Workshop held at the CHS in March… Read more
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 2016-17 academic year. Researchers may apply for both programs using the same online application form. CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies Deadline: October 15, 2015 Fellows are appointed for a term of up to seventeen weeks in the fall (Wednesday, September… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to express their thanks and appreciation to all those who participated in this summer’s Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seminar. This year’s participants worked their way through 18 dramas written by Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, as well as excerpts from Sappho, Herodotus, Bacchylides, and the Partheneion as… Read more
Since early June, I have been enjoying the enriching experience of a summer internship at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, DC. On a daily basis I engage with visiting scholars, research fellows, staff members, and other undergraduates, and I quickly became familiar with two questions: 1) Why Classics? and 2) What are your post-grad plans? The answers to both of these unfolded almost serendipitously as… Read more
Since early June, I have been enjoying the enriching experience of a summer internship at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, DC. On a daily basis I engage with visiting scholars, research fellows, staff members, and other undergraduates, and I quickly became familiar with two questions: 1) Why Classics? and 2) What are your post-grad plans? The answers to both of these unfolded almost serendipitously as… Read more
I have had the pleasure of spending the past two months here in Washington, DC working as a curricular development summer intern at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS). I have come to know scholars, staff members, and other undergraduates who have all made their way to CHS in order to connect and interact with the classical world. The environment in which I was raised instilled… Read more
I have had the pleasure of spending the past two months here in Washington, DC working as a curricular development summer intern at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS). I have come to know scholars, staff members, and other undergraduates who have all made their way to CHS in order to connect and interact with the classical world. The environment in which I was raised instilled a sense… Read more
Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National… Read more
Summer Internship Program in Nafplion | May 24-June 26 The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded its first phase on Friday, June 26. The students, all scholarship recipients from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Semiramis Sofra (University of Ioannina) and Veronica Wickline (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, Eleni Samantzopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in the National Gallery,… Read more
Hour 25 Community Reading Medea, Euripides Thursday, July 23 @11:00 a.m. EDT [Nurse] Would that the Argo had never winged its way to the land of Colchis through the dark-blue Symplegades! Would that the pine trees had never been felled in the glens of Mount Pelion and furnished oars for the hands [5] of the heroes who at Pelias’ command set forth in quest of the Golden… Read more
