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New CHS Publication – Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy by Andrea Capra through Harvard University Press. Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato’s most self-referential dialogue, and Plato’s reference to four Muses in Phaedrus 259c–d is read as a hint… Read more

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Now Available Online – The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers

The CHS is pleased to announce that Tarik Wareh’s The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers is now available online on the CHS website. The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in… Read more

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Now Available Online – Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars

Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of  Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks of the 5th century and to support this knowledge by evidence that will take the form of cataloguing. “The Greeks… Read more

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Online Publication of GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens, by Victor Bers

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Victor Bers’ GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). In this monograph Victor Bers attempts to show that many features of Athenian court speech in the deluxe form we know from the preserved speeches were fashioned to avoid the failings of amateur… Read more