Polytheisms and Cosmologies
5 May 2021, 1:00 pm ET
with Cléo Carastro (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) Read more
anthropology
Recap: Michael Puett on the study of religion
Rituals and Revelations Re-thinking Comparative Approaches to the Study of Religion Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the second meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Michael Puett for his talk, which offered a way out of the powerful criticisms of comparative work leveled by, for… Read more
Recap: Michael Herzfeld on hierarchy
Continuities and Comparisons The Role of Hierarchy in Modern Democracies and their Lein on Ancient Pasts–Greece and Thailand in Transgressive Practice Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the first meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Professor Michael Herzfeld for his talk on the importance of being… Read more
Rituals and Revelations
22 March 2021, 2:00 pm ET
Michael Puett (Harvard University) on re-thinking some of our categories in the study of religion from a comparative perspective. Read more
Comparatism Seminar Series
7 April 2021
This one-semester seminar series investigates current research and methodologies in comparatism, a key issue in Classical Studies, both within the ancient Mediterranean and more broadly. Read more
Continuities and Comparisons
10 March 2021, 2:00 pm ET
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard and Leiden Universities) on the role of hierarchy in modern democracies and their lien on ancient pasts. Read more
Anthropological Approaches
[Final draft of an essay by the same title published by Oxford University Press in The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, edited by Clemente Marconi, 2015, 621-636.] §1. Anthropology has had an important role in studies of Greek and Roman art, albeit a role marked by such discontinuity and eclecticism that it does not lend itself to be described as a set of principles. What is… Read more
Homeric Questions
The “Homeric Question” has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name “Homer” hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding… Read more