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In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy shares information on a day-to-day basis about his travel along with a Harvard travel-study program in Greece. During this trip, Gregory Nagy invited participants to focus on things to see or note at each ancient site the group visited. In cases where we visited a museum adjoining […]
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We are pleased to welcome Joel Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio/Brandeis University) for a discussion about ancient Greek proverbs, which will take place on Thursday, June 23 at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will be streamed live, and will be recorded. Joel Christensen prepared several blog posts for interested readers to focus. Paroimiai: […]
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We are pleased to share the schedule for the Sunoikisis Imperial Faculty Development Seminar. The discussions will be streamed live. The sessions are summarized below, and you can find further details in this document: Schedule Latin for Hour 25 Latin: June 16–19, 2016 Live stream link: https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html Thursday June 16 9:00–10:30 a.m. Intro Session 11:00 a.m.–12:30 […]
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We are pleased to share the schedule for the Sunoikisis Imperial Faculty Development Seminar. The discussions will be streamed live. The sessions are summarized below, and you can find further details in this document: Schedule Latin for Hour 25 Latin: June 16–19, 2016 Live stream link: https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html Thursday June 16 9:00–10:30 a.m. Intro Session 11:00 a.m.–12:30 […]
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Fall Semester, 2016 The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), a research institution devoted to the study of all aspects of ancient Hellenic civilization, seeks an intern to serve as a general assistant from August 29, 2016-January 31, 2017, with an option for renewal for the spring semester. Hours Part-time, 8-10 hours per week, $12.00/hour. […]
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is excited for the upcoming Sunoikisis Course Planning and Faculty Development Seminar. Seventeen professors from across the country and around the world will be attending the Greek and Latin Sunoikisis planning seminars, both in person and electronically, from June 10th to June 20th. This year’s Greek seminar is focusing on Hellenistic […]
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In his recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy focuses on the Homeric expression Dios boulē, which has has translated at times as ‘the Will of Zeus’ and at other times ‘the Plan of Zeus’. Nagy explains the variation in his translation: I see no contradiction here, since I have always understood the Will of Zeus […]
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The CHS team had the chance to connect with Leonard Muellner, Director of Publications and Information Technology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, to talk about the background and most recent progress on The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project seeks to present source texts of […]
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The CHS team had the chance to connect with Leonard Muellner, Director of Publications and Information Technology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, to talk about the background and most recent progress on The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project seeks to present source texts of […]
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Professor George Babiniotis, Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Athens and former Rector (2000-2006) of the University, joined us recently at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplio, Greece, for a lecture on “Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue”. The lecture, which was part of the Events Series 2016 […]