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CHS Essentials | What Is A Monster?
What do Hesiodic and Homeric poetry understand by ‘monsters’? Yiannis Petropoulos, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, attempts to answer this question:
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CHS Research Symposium — December 2015
CHS Research Symposium You are invited to attend the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium on Saturday, December 5 from 2:00-5:30pm (EST). The following fellows will present their research: Peter Agócs (University College London) Talking Song in Early Greek Poetry Rodney Ast (University of Heidelberg) Notaries, Clerks, and Hacks: The Many Writers of Greco-Roman Egypt […]
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Visiting scholar at CHS | Heather Gruber, Professor at Concordia College
October 22-27th This week, Dr. Heather Waddell Gruber, associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Concordia College, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Gruber is working on developing a digital text of the complete fragments of Sappho, as her texts are not easily accessible as a comprehensive collection. Like works found […]
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Visiting scholar at CHS | Heather Gruber, Professor at Concordia College
October 22-27th This week, Dr. Heather Waddell Gruber, associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Concordia College, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Gruber is working on developing a digital text of the complete fragments of Sappho, as her texts are not easily accessible as a comprehensive collection. Like works found […]
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CHS Open House Discussions — Fall 2015
We are in the heart of the fall season of CHS Open House discussions. These are the discussions that have taken place so far: Casey Dué, University of Houston ‘The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age’ Paul O’Mahony, actor, writer, and educator ‘The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today’ Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington ‘The Dreams […]
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CHS Essentials | Looking at Classics through Comics
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here.
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CHS Essentials | Looking at Classics through Comics
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here.
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Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style
Available Online Now Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style by James Bradley Wells In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study […]
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Pindar's Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style
Available Online Now Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style by James Bradley Wells In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study […]
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Visiting scholar at CHS | Edmund Richardson, Lecturer at Durham University
October 19-25, 2015 This week, Dr. Edmund Richardson, lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Richardson is working on completing his second monograph, Alexandrias: Misdirection and the Making of History. Using 19th and 20th century source work on Alexander the Great and […]
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