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Fellows Update – Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece, by Andromache Karanika

Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece, by Andromache Karanika The CHS Team is happy to share some exciting news from former Fellow Andromache Karanika (University of California). Professor Karanika has just published her latest book, Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece, through Johns Hopkins University Press. Andromache Karanika worked on this manuscript, while she […]

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Featured CHS Publication – Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India

Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India, by Shubha Pathak The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to feature Shubha Pathak’s Divine Yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India, available through Harvard University Press and soon to be published online at the CHS website, as well. […]

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Bonna Wescoat, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Emory University

February 9–15, 2015 This week, Bonna Wescoat, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Emory University, will be staying at CHS and using the library. Her research interests include Ancient Greek art and architecture, with emphasis on Archaic and Hellenistic architectural trends and architectural sculpture. In 2012, she became Director of Excavations in the Sanctuary of […]

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Now Available Online – Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy

Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy, by Andrea Capra The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Plato’s Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy by Andrea Capra on the CHS website. Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that […]

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CHS Shows Glynnis Fawkes’ Comics at SCS

An eye-catching feature of the CHS booth at the SCS book fair was a display of artist Glynnis Fawkes’ Classics-themed comic books. Throughout her career, Glynnis has woven together traditional art school training, an academic background in the Classics, and a love of cartooning that was as much inspired by Greek vase painting as by […]

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Eric Shimelonis' original composition for the Meière Mosaics

Eric Shimelonis, an award-winning composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist, inspired by the two art deco mosaic panels by Hildreth Meière and the story behind them, composed an original piece to celebrate their installation at the Center for Hellenic Studies in D.C. You can view a party picture compilation accompanied by part of Eric’s original composition in the embedded link […]

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Eric Shimelonis’ original composition for the Meière Mosaics

Eric Shimelonis, an award-winning composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist, inspired by the two art deco mosaic panels by Hildreth Meière and the story behind them, composed an original piece to celebrate their installation at the Center for Hellenic Studies in D.C. You can view a party picture compilation accompanied by part of Eric’s original composition in the embedded link […]

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In Memoriam: Jean Bollack

~ by André Laks, translated by Leonard Muellner ~ Jean Bollack died on December 4, 2012, at the age of 89. He was a singular figure, both as a philologist and a human being. One way, admittedly a somewhat paradoxical way, to get a sense of what sort of person he was, is to attribute […]