This collaborative volume focuses on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space. A sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space, Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond shares with its predecessor a strong focus on the role of empire and ideas of space viewed in… Read more
Love in the Age of War explores soldier characters in Menander’s situation comedies, the oldest of their kind. Menander came to dominate and define comedy for centuries, and a soldier served as the central character in many of his plays. This study reveals that these soldier characters are not the bragging… Read more
Join us on Friday, November 17 at 11:00 a.m. for a roundtable discussion about genocide in antiquity, particularly Ancient Greece. Is genocide a purely modern concept and action, or has it been happening for millennia? Read more
The relationship between the soul and the body was a point of contentious debate among philosophers and theologians in late antiquity. Modern scholarship has inherited this legacy, but split the study of the relation of body and soul between the disciplines of philosophy and religion. Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of… Read more
науч. ред. В. К. Пичугиной, пред. В. К. Пичугиной, З. А. Лурье, пер. З. А. Лурье. — СПб.: Изд-во РХГА, 2023. — 264 с. — (Серия «Paideia»). Эта книга является переводом на русский язык книги Даниэля Л. Шварца — доцента факультета религиоведения, заместителя директора Центра цифровых гуманитарных исследований Техасского университета A&M (США). Автор… Read more
This open roundtable discussion brings together different experiences and ideas on teaching humanities to residents within prisons, domestically and abroad. Read more
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
Please join us for a selection of poetry readings and performance by Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi and Giannisi’s poet-translator Brian Sneeden, in conversation with Laura Jansen. Read more
