Description of Greece: A Pausanias Reader, Scrolls 1–10 Translation based on the original rendering by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H.A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes of Jones.The translation is edited, with revisions, by Gregory Nagy [*] [ back ] Scroll I. Attica {1.1.1} Belonging to the Greek mainland [ēpeiros], facing […]
Bibliographical Abbreviations ABV = Beazley, J. 1956. Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters. Oxford. BA = Nagy, G. 1999. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Rev. ed. with new intro. Baltimore (available online). DELG = Chantraine, P. 2009. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: histoire des mots. Ed. J. Taillardat, […]
The following researchers received a visiting scholar grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies and will visit Washington, DC during the spring 2016 term. The award includes housing on the CHS campus in Washington, DC for six nights and travel support. For more information, view the program description. February Laura Jansen (Princeton University) Maria Kazanskaya (Institute for Linguistic […]
The following videos are excerpts from other CHS video series that have been selected because of their succinct focus on a key concept. Each video explores its concept or topic in under 7 minutes, and they are made available in the order in which they are processed. Hesiod Human Sacrifice Fast Reading Horse Sacrifice in […]
The mission of the CHS is to bring together a variety of research and teaching interests centering on Hellenic civilization in the widest sense of the term “Hellenic.” This concept encompasses the evolution of the Greek language and its culture as a central point of contact for all the different civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean […]
For Taylor Acknowledgments This book contains ten essays that have been edited and revised—and in the case of the final one, substantially expanded for this collection. The essays have been arranged so as to indicate relations that suggested themselves as I reviewed the group. The first one, “Language and the Female in Early Greek […]
Chapter 3. Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus [*] Franco Ferrari Università dell’Aquila On January 15, 1962, the remains of the Derveni Papyrus were unearthed from a cist grave in northern Greece. Anton Fackelmann, curator of the papyrus collection of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and the world’s […]
A Comprehensive List of Online Short Writings by Gregory Nagy Listed In Alphabetical Order “Achilles and Patroklos as Models for the Twinning of Identity.” Forthcoming, in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, ed. Kimberley Patton, I.B. Tauris, 2013. Not for quotation or distribution. “The Aeolic Component in Homeric Diction.” Expanded […]
The Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Annual Lecture Series at Howard University, Washington, D.C. Rudolph Hock On November 21, 2003 Professor Snowden was honored at the White House as a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. The words with which he was introduced deserve repeating: “Frank M. Snowden, Jr., for a life of eminent scholarship, inspirational […]
This is a test article with hellenistic comics so that i would have pictures to add.