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    Classical Inquiries | Just to look at all the shining bronze here, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven: Seeing bronze in the ancient Greek world

    Today, February 25, at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, Gregory Nagy and Gloria Ferrari Pinney are holding a panel discussion on “A poet or a god: The Iconography of Certain Bearded Male Bronzes.” This is the second of two panel discussions coordinated with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies to highlight […]

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    Classical Inquiries | Just to look at all the shining bronze here, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven: Seeing bronze in the ancient Greek world

    Today, February 25, at 3:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, Gregory Nagy and Gloria Ferrari Pinney are holding a panel discussion on “A poet or a god: The Iconography of Certain Bearded Male Bronzes.” This is the second of two panel discussions coordinated with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies to highlight […]

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    Now Online | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Franklin

    We are very pleased to announce the online publication of  Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin on the CHS website. Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings (and much […]

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    Now Online | Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Franklin

    We are very pleased to announce the online publication of  Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Curtis Franklin on the CHS website. Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon’s (faithless) ally, Aphrodite’s priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings (and much […]

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    CHS Visiting Scholar | Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow

    This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new […]

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    CHS Visiting Scholar | Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow

    This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new […]

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    CHS GR Event: Eleni Papadaki, “The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies. Particularities from the interaction of science and tradition”

    CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “The practice of contemporary medical science in local societies. Particularities from the interaction of science and tradition” Lecturer: Eleni Papadaki, Professor of Haematology & Head of Department of Haematology PAGNI (University Hospital), School of Medicine, University of Crete […]