Greece hosted vibrant Neolithic communities that spread over various landscapes, including caves in all settings. The absence of textual evidence makes materiality our utmost medium through those communities’ social and spiritual worlds. Read more
Is technology a dis-embodied entity estranged from the socio-historical human experience, as the Western modern view of production would assert? Are techniques and tools adopted and transferred as neutral technical information or as socially and culturally significant practices? How is the body-material-tool relationship shaped by culture, materializing human behavior, social relations, and worldviews? Read more
Part of the CHS Visiting Artist Presentation Series, this presentation features Akis Goumas, a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of ancient crafting technologies in the Aegean. Read more
[The printed version of this article was published in Tradizione e innovazione nella cultura greca da Omero all’ età ellenistica: Scritti in onore di Bruno Gentili (ed. R. Pretagostini) vol. 1, 221–225. Rome 1993. The original pagination of the printed version will be indicated in this electronic version by way… Read more
The purpose of this study is to recover, as far as possible, knowledge of the public monuments of the Persian Wars set up by the Greeks of the fifth century. A survey of the evidence is proposed. It will take the form of a catalogue; the evidence has been collected… Read more
CHS/DAI Joint Fellow La vexata quaestio dei confini demici Un interessante ed alquanto nutrito dibattito si è svolto ed è tuttora in corso nel tentativo di definire con maggior precisione quale fosse l’effettiva natura dei demi clistenici. L’opinione predominante è che, nel compiere la sua riorganizzazione politica dell’Attica, Clistene immaginò… Read more
Το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών (Ελλάδος), Πανεπιστήμιο Harvard και η Ερευνητική ομάδα Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, συνδιοργανώνουν την ακόλουθη ημερίδα: Ο Απουλήιος στο Ναύπλιο Επίσημη παρουσίαση δύο πρόσφατων εκδόσεων για το έργο του Απουλήιου Παρασκευή, 16 Οκτωβρίου, 10:00 π.μ. Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, Αίθουσα Διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου… Read more
Yannis Galanakis (University of Cambridge) seeks to brings an exciting, fresh perspective to the study of Aegean archaeology. “I was really struck by the fact that we still know very little about the people who were involved in the trafficking of all these ancient objects that today adorn museums… Read more
