Translated from the French by Elizabeth Palmer, this online edition has been revised and updated by Jeremy Lin, Jacqueline Lewandowski, and Vergil Parson. “This work belongs in a bountiful tradition. Less than a decade after Devoto’s Origini indeuropee, Benveniste, leaving aside most apparatus but ever so supremely in control of the data, has produced a classic. We may see it as a collection of monographs or as the systematic work… Read more
New and revised edition, translated by Derek Collins and Janice Orion In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted… Read more
The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, edited by Peter Funke & Nino Luraghi The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, edited by Peter Funke & Nino Luraghi, on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. The crisis of Spartan power in… Read more
The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, edited by Peter Funke & Nino Luraghi The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, edited by Peter Funke & Nino Luraghi, on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. The crisis of Spartan power in the… Read more
The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarship. Read more
