The CHS team is happy to announce that the following best sellers from Harvard University Press are available online for free at the CHS website! Averil Cameron Dialoguing in Late Antiquity Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce the fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. Fall Term Fellows Peter Agócs (USA) University College London – Talking Song in Early Greek Poetry Rodney Ast (USA) University of Heidelberg – Notaries, Clerks, and Hacks: The Many Writers of Greco-Roman Egypt Francisco Barrenechea (Mexico) University of Maryland, College… Read more
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām, by M. Rahim Shayegan The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām, by M. Rahim Shayegan on the CHS website. The work… Read more
Jacques-Louis David, “The Death of Socrates”(1787), Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Many community members have been reading Gregory Nagy’s “The Last Words of Socrates in the Place Where He Died” on H24H Dialogues. In that post he explores the meaning of sacrificing a rooster to Asklepios. We are happy… Read more
July 7-16, 2015 Application Deadline: May 1, 2015 The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC offers a workshop to introduce undergraduates to important sources of information for the study of classics and develop their ability to access, evaluate, and manage resources in a variety of formats. Workshop participants will… Read more
July 7-16, 2015 Application Deadline: May 1, 2015 The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC offers a workshop to introduce undergraduates to important sources of information for the study of classics and develop their ability to access, evaluate, and manage resources in a variety of formats. Workshop participants will… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., in Ligourio for the following lecture: “Colors of flowering plants: from nature in Greece to depiction in painting and nanotechnology” Lecturer: Sophia Rhizopoulou, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Respondent:… Read more
The Hour 25 community is pleased to welcome Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University) for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Heroism, Charisma, and Legitimate Rule: a Dialogue with Max Weber’, to be held on Thursday, February 26 at 11:00 a.m. EST. We would also like to share the news that Nicolas… Read more
Many community members have been reading Gregory Nagy’s latest commentary about God-Hero Antagonism in the in the Hippolytus of Euripides on the H24H Dialogues website. Below are some resources for additional study inspired by that post. Original texts: Hippolytus of Euripides in Greek on Perseus Phaedra of Seneca in… Read more
Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, edited by Nino Luraghi and Susan E. Alcock The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, eds. Nino Luraghi and Susan E. Read more
