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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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Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson The CHS team is very pleased to announce the online publication of Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson on the CHS website. (available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press). In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of […]
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Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson The CHS team is very pleased to announce the online publication of Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians, by Rosaria Vignolo Munson on the CHS website. (available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press). In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of […]
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Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of […]
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Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now, by Gregory Nagy on the CHS website. The work will soon be available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. In Masterpieces of […]
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The cognitive interface between musician and god, instrument and player 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 more). Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in […]
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We are pleased to welcome back Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) for our next CHS Open House discussion, on Thursday, October 22 at 11 a.m. EDT, when we will be talking about ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’ which was originally given as a keynote talk at the 2015 Heartland Graduate […]
The Center For Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of spring fellow Eric Kansa’s paper, “Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology,” which was presented at the 2015 Fellows Research Symposium. See the abstract below. To read the full article, visit the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Bulletin. Abstract Though […]
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale […]
How old is our Iliad? Casey Dué explores this complex question in the following CHS Essentials video, recorded in October 2015. Dué’s analysis includes a discussion of the Shield of Achilles as described in Iliad scroll 18. She also considers evidence from Bronze Age, miniature frescoes from Thera, Greece. This discussion draws on evidence presented in “A Tale […]