Read these new titles at the CHS Library in Washington, DC: E-books Reimer, David. Count like an Egyptian : a hands-on introduction to ancient mathematics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2014] The Routledge handbook of the Stoic tradition, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 Rüpke, Jörg. Religious deviance in the Roman world : superstition or individuality?, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016… Read more
Safdar Mandviwala, a member of the Hour 25 community, had the opportunity to travel to Greece along with the Harvard Alumni Association’s travel-study program led by Gregory Nagy. In a recent Hour 25 posting, Safdar Mandviwala shares insights about their time in Athens and Marathon, which was also the last leg of the travel-study program. It was at the farewell dinner that night… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a CHS Dialogue on Pindar on Wednesday, August 10, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Visit Hour 25 for the live stream webcast, focus passages to prepare for this conversation, and a discussion with community members on the topic. Maria G. Xanthou (PhD Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a CHS Dialogue on Pindar on Wednesday, August 10, at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Visit Hour 25 for the live stream webcast, focus passages to prepare for this conversation, and a discussion with community members on the topic. Maria G. Xanthou (PhD Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) has taught Classical… Read more
New iteration of the popular online project now open for registration Registration is now open for the latest session of “The Ancient Greek Hero,” a groundbreaking open, online project from HarvardX that uses Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) technology to introduce participants to the literature and heroes of ancient Greece. The project is directed by Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at… Read more
Deadline for registration: Friday, August 19, 2016 The Sunoikisis Fall 2016 course on leadership in the ancient world is now live and open to the public. This course is designed to serve as introduction to the ancient Mediterranean world in the tradition of courses on vocabulary building through Greek and Latin, mythology, and gender and sexuality. The course’s particular goal is to inspire new… Read more
Save the date! Don’t miss these live webcasts with visiting scholars on a wide variety of topics! Wednesday, August 10: Maria Xanthou, on Pindar (University of Leeds) Thursday September 15: John C. Franklin, on Kinyras: The Divine Lyre (University of Vermont) Thursday, September 29: Deborah Beck, topic to be determined (University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, October 13: Stomata Dova, topic to be determined (Hellenic College) Stay tuned for further announcements!… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in this summer’s Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seminar. This summer participants worked their way through the nine books of Herodotus’ Histories while also reading secondary literature in order to present these texts to students across the nation. This year we were pleased to have 17 professors… Read more
With the Olympic Games coming up, Sarah Scott, an active participant and member of the editorial team in Hour 25, shares this month’s Core Vocab word which is āthlos (aethlos) [ἆθλος/ἄεθλος] ‘contest, ordeal; competition’; and āthlētēs [ἀθλητής], ‘athlete’. In HeroesX Gregory Nagy introduces the word āthlētēs in a section about the Labors of Hēraklēs and the founding of the Olympic Games: Hēraklēs not only founded this major festival: he also competed in every athletic… Read more
Janet M. Ozsolak, a member of the Hour 25 and Kleos@CHS editorial teams, had the opportunity to travel to Greece along with the Harvard Alumni Association’s travel-study program led by Gregory Nagy. In a recent posting on Hour 25, Janet Ozsolak shares her impressions from her visit to the Sanctuary of Asclepius, Olympia, and Delphi as well as photos from the sites and museums. The… Read more
