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CHS News | Michael Marks award-winning poets reading their own work

2016 Poets in Residence Program Poets Gill Mc Evoy and Jennifer Elliott, this year’s winners of the “Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets” in London and Edinburgh (a.k.a. the Callum MacDonald Award), participated in the Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program for two weeks during the past summer. The CHS had prepared a program full of activities in Nafplio, Ancient Olympia, Delphi, and Athens. Once in Ancient Olympia, our two… Read more

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CHS Open House: The Beauty of Homeric Similes, with Deborah Beck

Deborah Beck of University of Texas will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on “The Beauty of Homeric Similes in Iliad 16.” The event takes place on September 29 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. To prepare for the event, you may like to read  Iliad 16 with the special focus on similes. Watch the live broadcast on the  Hour 25 website or on the YouTube channel. Homer Iliad 16.482-92… Read more

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CHS Open House | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin

John C. Franklin of the University of Vermont will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on “Kinyras: The Divine Lyre.” The event takes place on Thursday, September 15 at 11 a.m. EDT. To prepare for this event, you might like to read the Introduction “Kinyras and Kinnaru” of Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, Hellenic Studies Series 70. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, on the CHS website, here. Watch… Read more

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CHS Open House | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, with John C. Franklin

John C. Franklin of the University of Vermont will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on “Kinyras: The Divine Lyre.” The event takes place on Thursday, September 15 at 11 a.m. EDT. To prepare for this event, you might like to read the Introduction “Kinyras and Kinnaru” of Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, Hellenic Studies Series 70. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, on the CHS website, here. Read more

Publications

Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a kind… Read more

Publications

Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a… Read more