Visit of the Center for Hellenic Studies Team, Harvard University to the National Library of Greece


VISIT OF THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES TEAM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY TO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE

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Advancing collaboration between the National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (CHS), Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center in Washington and Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard, and Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, visited the National Library of Greece at the invitation of Dr. Philippos Tsimpoglou, Director of the National Library. The meeting, which took place on Saturday, July 11, was also attended by members of the NLG and a group of CHS associates (US and Greece) and discussed the prospects of further collaboration and joint activity of the two organizations. After the meeting and tour of the Library premises in the center of Athens, the group of colleagues from both institutions continued discussions by visiting the Visitor Center in the new under construction building of the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

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