“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He has a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University… Read more
“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He has a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)… Read more
What do Hesiodic and Homeric poetry understand by ‘monsters’? Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, attempts to answer this question:… Read more
What do Hesiodic and Homeric poetry understand by ‘monsters’? Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, attempts to answer this question:… Read more
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here. … Read more
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here. … Read more
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins… Read more
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry,”… Read more
In this week’s featured CHS Essentials video, Greg Nagy talks about the body of poetry. The word ‘body’ is very important in its use, in that it conveys something that is not just systematic but is also alive; just like oral poetry. Oral poetry comes alive in performance. How does the word ‘kuklos’ or cycle in modern English connect to oral poetics? Watch our featured video to find out:… Read more
In this week’s featured CHS Essentials video, Greg Nagy talks about the body of poetry. The word ‘body’ is very important in its use, in that it conveys something that is not just systematic but is also alive; just like oral poetry. Oral poetry comes alive in performance. How does the word ‘kuklos’ or cycle in modern English connect to oral poetics? Watch our featured video to find out: Professor Nagy… Read more
