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Library: New Books, July 2016

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 […]

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Athens and Marathon: Travel-study, Leg 3

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 […]

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Experience Harvard’s “Ancient Greek Hero” MOOC!

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 […]

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Forthcoming Live Webcasts from CHS — Summer/Fall 2016

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 […]

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CIC Seminar 2016 l Herodotus

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 […]

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Hour 25 | Core Vocab: āthlos, āthlētēs

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 […]