The Center for Hellenic Studies

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About Us – Landing Page

<p><img src=”http://atlas.chs.harvard.edu/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1″ mce_src=”http://atlas.chs.harvard.edu/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1″ style=”border:0″ mce_style=”border:0″ alt=”” /></p> ABOUT THE CENTER Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, located in Washington DC, was founded by means of an endowment made “exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to rediscover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks.” This humanistic vision remains the driving force of the Center for Hellenic Studies. Read more

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Homerizon Conference: Richard H. Armstrong

Richard H. Armstrong back to Homerizon Conference main page From Huponoia to Paranoia: On the Secular Co-optation of Homeric Religion in  Vico, Feuerbach, and Freud. Herodotus tells us that the Greeks got their notions of the gods from Homer   and Hesiod, “who gave the gods their names, determined their spheres and   functions, and described their outward forms” (Hist. 2.53). For philosophers like Xenophanes of Colophon and Plato,… Read more