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    Now Online! | Plato’s Phaedo, translated by Gwenda-lin Grewal

    “You yourself, Phaedo, were you present with Socrates on that day on which he drank the poison in the prison, or did you hear from someone else?” Thus begins the account of the final day in the life of Socrates, as portrayed by Plato in the Phaedo, which the CHS is pleased to offer in a new translation by Gwenda-lin Grewal, Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

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    Now Online! | Plato’s Phaedo, translated by Gwenda-lin Grewal

    “You yourself, Phaedo, were you present with Socrates on that day on which he drank the poison in the prison, or did you hear from someone else?” Thus begins the account of the final day in the life of Socrates, as portrayed by Plato in the Phaedo, which the CHS is pleased to offer in a new translation by Gwenda-lin Grewal, Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

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    Εκπαιδευτική Ημερίδα στο πλαίσιο των εκδηλώσεων του 6ου Μαραθωνίου Ναυπλίου

    Ο Δήμαρχος Ναυπλιέων και Πρόεδρος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του Μαραθωνίου Ναυπλίου κ. Δημήτρης Κωστούρος και ο Διευθυντής του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών (Ελλάδος) του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard κ. Ιωάννης Πετρόπουλος με χαρά σας προσκαλούν την Παρασκευή 1 Μαρτίου 2019 και ώρα 19:00 στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογένειας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» του ΚΕΣ, στο πλαίσιο των εκδηλώσεων του 6ου Μαραθωνίου Ναυπλίου.

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    Kosmos Society Book Club | Plutarch at Delphi

    “Note also these inscriptions here, ‘Know thyself’ and ‘Avoid extremes,’ how many philosophic inquiries have they set on foot, and what a horde of discourses has sprung up from each, as from a seed ! And no less productive of discourse than any one of them, as I think, is the present subject of inquiry.”