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Available online on video | 2016 CHS-SPEL educational workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece

On Saturday, January 23, 2016, the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning, organized a joint educational workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece on “The concept of the hero in antiquity and its diachronic evolution. An important educational tool.” Professors Gregory Nagy, Ioannis Petropoulos, Leonard Muellner,  and Keith Stone presented their work on “Diachronic and […]

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CHS GR Event: Maria Kampouri-Vamvoukou, “The universality of Great Alexander’s myth in space and time”

CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “The universality of Great Alexander’s myth in space and time” Lecturer: Maria Kampouri-Vamvoukou, Professor, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Respondent: Vangelis Maladakis, Doctor in Byzantine Archaeology The event will take place at the […]

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CFP | Digital Literacies for the Ancient World

Digital Literacies for the Ancient World A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016 Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016 Guidelines: https://www-current.chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386   This volume of […]

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CFP | Digital Literacies for the Ancient World

Digital Literacies for the Ancient World A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016 Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016 Guidelines: https://www-current.chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386   This volume of […]

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CHS Announces Summer Abroad Interns for 2016!

The CHS would like to announce the Summer Abroad interns for 2016: Cultural Internship Program – Nafplio, Greece Fougaro, Anthos Library Yanni Metaxas, Boston University, 2017 Christina Vouvaki, Ionion University, 2019 Archaeological Museum of Nafplio Charoula-Maria Fotiadou, University of Ioannina, 2017 Luke Kelly, Harvard University, 2019 Europe Direct Samantha Garin, Harvard University, 2017 Alexandros Theodoridis, Democritus University of Thrace, […]

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Classical Inquiries | Picturing Homer as a cult hero

CHS Director Gregory Nagy recently participated in a panel discussion at the National Gallery of Art with researcher Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard University). The focus of their talk was a bronze head currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In the context of that discussion Ferrari Pinney argued that the bronze head, which […]

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CHS Open House: Herodotus, with Alexander Hollmann

We are pleased to welcome Alexander Hollmann (University of Washington) for our next Open House discussion, which will be about Herodotus. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 10, at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. His book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories, is available at […]