The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary Iliad 10 has historically been the epic’s most doubted book and the book least likely to be judged “Homeric.” In the course of… Read more
From the Editors of the Homer Multitext Dué, Casey, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Originally published in 2006 by University of Texas Press. Copyright, Casey Dué. Dué, Casey, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. Originally published in 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield as… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron through Harvard University Press. Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim to be records of actual public debates, and we know that many such… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds. through Harvard University Press. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron in April 2014 through Harvard University Press. Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim to be records of actual public debates, and… Read more
Με μεγάλη χαρά παραθέτουμε το ακόλουθο άρθρο της Μαίρης Αδαμοπούλου (ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, 1-2 Φεβρουαρίου 2014) στο οποίο ο Gregory Nagy μιλάει για τη νέα Σαπφώ και τον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα τραγούδια της συνθέτονταν καθώς παρουσιάζονταν δημοσίως. Η Σαπφώ και η αιώνια γοητεία της, Μαίρη Αδαμοπούλου, ΤΑ ΝΕΑ … Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus by Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds. in March 2014 through Harvard University Press. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Yannis Tzifopoulos ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature the following books and articles, all of which are freely available on the CHS website. Laura Slatkin The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays This influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness… Read more
New Online Publication at CHS The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Walsh’s Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems (2005) is now available as part of the CHS Online Publications collection. Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed Homer’s language beyond the study of the Iliad’s first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a… Read more
