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CHS Open House: Playing Scrabble with Sappho Part 1—Introduction to Sappho Poetry Reading, with James N. Stone

We are pleased to welcome James N. Stone, educator, psychologist, and translator, for the first of two sessions on the poetry of Sappho. This discussion will be on Thursday, May 28 at 4 p.m. EDT. He introduces this first session as follows: This presentation offers a multi-dimensional show and tell of a celebrated archaic poet, a woman famous in her time (~650BC) whose poems come to us in fragile condition,… Read more

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Ephebe’s Journey III | The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America

Ephebe’s Journey III Friday, July 31-Saturday, August 1, 2015 The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the… Read more

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Ephebe’s Journey III | The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America

Ephebe’s Journey III Friday, July 31-Saturday, August 1, 2015 The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the… Read more

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Fellows Update – Τὰ ξένια: La cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina, by Angela Cinalli

Τὰ ξένια: La cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina, by Angela Cinalli The CHS Team is happy to share some exciting news from Angela Cinalli, CHS Fellow in Greek Epigraphy. Professor Cinalli has just published her latest book, Τὰ ξένια: La cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina (English translation, “Ta xenia: the ceremony of city hospitality.”) The book is an open access publication from Sapienza Università Editrice. In it, Angela Cinalli reconstructs the steps of the ceremony through which Greek cities… Read more

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Summer Workshop on Ancient Greek Graffiti

The Ancient Graffiti Project | A week-long workshop focused on the Greek graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum The CHS team is pleased to announce the Ancient Graffiti Project, a week-long workshop focused on the Greek graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum, to take place August 3-7, 2015, hosted at the Center for Hellenic Studies, in Washington DC. The Ancient Graffiti Project (ancientgraffiti.wlu.edu) aims… Read more

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CHS Open House: ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’, with Yiannis Petropoulos

CHS Open House: ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’, with Yiannis Petropoulos We are pleased to welcome Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, to our next CHS Open House, April 30 at 11am EDT, to discuss ‘Monster Menageries of Homer and Hesiod’. He introduces the topic: Liberally populating ancient Greek poetry, monsters cannot be taken for granted and should not be treated as preposterous… Read more

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India and Greece | Four Comparative Approaches

The CHS team is happy to announce the publication of Classics@12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece. This online volume contains papers comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece. The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with the Embassy of India. “India and Greece, four comparative approaches: An evening of conversation with four… Read more

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India and Greece | Four Comparative Approaches

The CHS team is happy to announce the publication of Classics@12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece. This online volume contains papers comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece. The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with the Embassy of India. “India and Greece, four comparative approaches: An evening of conversation with four scholars”… Read more

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Κέντρο Οδυσσειακών Σπουδών | Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame, Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Mattei Athena Louvre, under Wikimedia Commons Ο Douglas Frame, διακεκριμένος μελετητής του ομηρικού έπους και διεθνώς γνωστός, μεταξύ άλλων, για τα βιβλία του The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (1978) και  Hippota Nestor (2010), θα δώσει μια διάλεξη με θέμα «Η Αθηνά στη χώρα των Φαιάκων» (“Athena among… Read more

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Κέντρο Οδυσσειακών Σπουδών | Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ Διάλεξη του Douglas Frame, Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Mattei Athena Louvre, under Wikimedia Commons Ο Douglas Frame, διακεκριμένος μελετητής του ομηρικού έπους και διεθνώς γνωστός, μεταξύ άλλων, για τα βιβλία του The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic (1978) και  Hippota Nestor (2010), θα δώσει μια διάλεξη με θέμα «Η Αθηνά στη χώρα των Φαιάκων» (“Athena among the… Read more