Richard Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion on heroine cult and tragedy, with special reference to the Medea of Euripides. Read more
Richard Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, will join the CHS community for an Online Open House discussion on heroine cult and tragedy, with special reference to the Medea of Euripides. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord is now available online, for free, in an electronic form, on the newly redesigned CHS website. Albert Lord’s book builds on Milman Parry’s work in his search of the oral traditions in the Yugoslavia of 1933–35. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry to further understand how… Read more
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CHS As one of Albert Lord’s former students, it gives me great pleasure to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 15, 1912. As a pioneering scholar in the study of oral traditions, Lord had a profound impact on our understanding of oral epic traditions, including the tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey. His book The Singer of Tales introduced thousands of readers to the richness… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies offers students and scholars of Homer a particularly deep selection of publications and resources--all freely available online. Read more
