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Dates: July 22-23, 2016 Application Deadline: July 13 This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the […]
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Dates: July 22-23, 2016 Application Deadline: July 13 This two-day workshop will introduce students with an interest in civic participation and leadership to aspects of democracy, one of the ancient world’s most lasting legacies. Working with Professors Norman Sandridge (Howard University) and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), the participants will focus on the type of democracy that the […]
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Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor This 1983 book of Jenny Strauss Clay, The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, is such an encounter. She wrote it in an era when the majority of Classicists responded to the methodology of Milman Parry and Albert Lord by splitting into […]
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Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor This 1983 book of Jenny Strauss Clay, The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, is such an encounter. She wrote it in an era when the majority of Classicists responded to the methodology of Milman Parry and Albert Lord by splitting into […]
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We were pleased to welcome Joel Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio/Brandeis University) for a discussion about ancient Greek proverbs, which was recorded. Joel Christensen prepared several blog posts for the community members to focus. Paroimiai: Proverbs from Ancient Greece to Star Trek A Selection of Proverbs “Two Ears, One Mouth”: Hunting a Proverb […]
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The Summer Internship Program in Nafplio, organized and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) concluded on Wednesday, July 6. The students, all receiving a scholarship from CHS, worked for the following institutions: Charoula – Maria Fotiadou (University of Ioannina) and Luke Kelly (Harvard) in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio, Theodora Prassa (Aristotle University […]
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In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining […]
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In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining […]
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Join Gregory Nagy, Douglas Frame, and Leonard Muellner as they read the Odyssey, Book 1, Lines 98–112. You can find the text via Perseus here.
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Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in […]