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CHS GR Event: Josiah Ober, “Τhe Rise and Fall of Classical Greece”

Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 18 Νοεμβρίου, 2015 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην πρώτη διάλεξη της εφετινής σειράς εκδηλώσεων Events Series 2015-2016 με θέμα: «Η Άνοδος και η Πτώση της Κλασικής Ελλάδας» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University & Leventis Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh Συνομιλητής: Νικόλαος Κυριαζής, Καθηγητής, πρώην Πρόεδρος, Τμήμα Οικονομικών Επιστημών, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας & Επισκέπτης Ερευνητής, Κέντρο Διεθνών Σχέσεων, Πανεπιστήμιο Harvard… Read more

Publications

Now Available Online | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now

Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If… Read more

Publications

Now Available Online | Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now

Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor… Read more

Publications

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek—now in print and online

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is now available online and in print as a single volume, and as a two-volume boxed set. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond. Read more

CHS Learning Module, News

Homer Multitext Tutorial: How to Use the HMT Manuscript Browser

Anyone can browse and cite images from manuscripts in the Homer Multitext Library, including the manuscripts known as the Venetus A, the Venetus B, and U4. First open the Manuscript Browser, currently found at https://chs75.chs.harvard.edu/manuscripts/index.html?ms=msA. You can always find a link to the browser on the CHS homepage (chs.harvard.edu). To go to and compare a particular passage of the Iliad in multiple manuscripts Enter the… Read more

News, Publications

Homeric Variations: Interview with Classicist and Jazz Musician Graeme Bird, Gordon College

Graeme Bird and a student from Gordon College examine an 1800-year-old Homeric papyrus.Photo Credit: Cyndi McMahon, Gordon College   "True improvisation has nothing really to do with “making stuff up on the spot”; rather it is the creative and inspired weaving together of previously rehearsed material…" --Graeme Bird We recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with professor, musician, and CHS author Graeme D. Bird about his work on ancient Homeric papyri, jazz improvisation, and the surprising intersections between the two. Read more

News, Publications

Online Publication of The Power of Thetis by Laura Slatkin

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Laura Slatkin’s The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). This influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater… Read more