The Center for Hellenic Studies is deeply saddened by the loss of Gloria Ferrari Pinney, former Senior Fellow (2000-2006, and 2016-2021), Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Emerita at Harvard University. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to express our sincerest condolences to the family of the late Kurt A. Raaflaub, Professor Emeritus of Classics at Brown University, CHS Fellow in 1976-1977, and co-director of the Center for Hellenic Studies from 1992-2000 alongside his wife, Deborah Boedeker. Read more
Application deadlines: Sunday, October 15, 2023Reference letter deadlines: Sunday, October 22, 2023 The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2024-25 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. The programs offered include the Fellowship in Hellenic Studies,… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington and Greece would like to express our sincerest condolences to the family of the late Philippou Tsiboglou, Director General of the National Library of Greece, as well as to the entire NLG team. Read more
Looting and Faking Theodore Nash The discipline of Classics, as the study of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions, is characterised at its best by a remarkable methodological breadth. Archaeologists, philologists, and historians (each a heterogenous group in its own right) are able to ask complex questions… Read more
Introduction How many ways are there to tell the story of Troy? A passage from Iliad 20 makes me wonder just how flexible the Homeric tradition might be. At the beginning of book 20, Zeus calls the gods to an assembly. He tells them that they may now join the… Read more
Gísli Sigurðsson, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland More than fifty years after the publication of The Singer of Tales the book and the ideas therein still serve as a fresh wind in the textually-oriented field of Old Norse Studies where very few have taken up… Read more
Παρατηρήσεις σχετικά με τις ελληνικές διαλέκτους στα τέλη της δεύτερης χιλιετίας π.Χ. Gregory Nagy [1] Μετάφραση από την Christina Lafi Κατά την πρώτη χιλιετία π.Χ., η οποία αποτελεί την εποχή στην οποία αναπτύχθηκε η αλφαβητική γραφή από τους Ελληνόφωνους λαούς από τον όγδοο αιώνα π.Χ.,… Read more
