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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Laura Slatkin’s The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). This influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of […]
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The Homer Multitext: On-line publication of Homer Multitext related scholarship. HMT Editor Casey Dué highlights several resources on the CHS website including Gregory Nagy’s Homer the Classic and Homer the Preclassic.
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Stephanie Lindeborg We recently had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Lindeborg, a senior at Holy Cross and an undergraduate researcher working with Prof. Mary Ebbott and Prof. Neel Smith on the Homer Multitext project. [Read our companion interview with Mary Ebbott.] Stephanie shared her thoughts about working with treasured primary resources such as the Venetus […]
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Stephanie Lindeborg We recently had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Lindeborg, a senior at Holy Cross and an undergraduate researcher working with Prof. Mary Ebbott and Prof. Neel Smith on the Homer Multitext project. [Read our companion interview with Mary Ebbott.] Stephanie shared her thoughts about working with treasured primary resources such as the Venetus […]
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“… the editor is no longer a dictator of what the text is, but rather someone who provides access to the sources within a framework that allows users to make these comparisons, to ask new questions, and to re-use the material for his or her own purposes.”–Mary Ebbott We recently had the opportunity to interview Mary […]
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With a sad heart we share news of the passing of Juha Sihvola, a dear colleague and former Junior Fellow at CHS (1994-1995). Professor Sihvola, who was the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Jyväskylä, died on June 14th due to illness. Sihvola was […]
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We recently had a chance to talk with Anna Bonifazi about her research, Homeric diction, and her new book, Homer’s Verisicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Wordmaking. CHS: Your book examines two main subjects: 1) the pronominalization of Odysseus as ἐκεῖνος and as αὐτός 2) the treatment of particles and adverbs deriving from […]