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On November 9th a small group of classicists, artists, and visiting scholars gathered outside Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. to mark the arrival of two mosaic panels designed by renowned artist Hildreth Meière. The panels were part of a large-scale, triptych mural with the center panel depicting Hercules’ passage through the Straight […]
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Gregory Nagy, the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC is participating in the spring break trip to Greece on March 14 – March 22, 2014. The participants will have the chance to uncover Classical Greece through its most important archaeological […]
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Ο Νίκος Χουρμουζιάδης (Nikos Chourmouziadis), Ομότιμος καθηγητής της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής και Επίτιμος διδάκτωρ της Σχολής Θεάτρου του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης, απεβίωσε στις 18 Οκτωβρίου 2013, σε ηλικία 83 ετών. Ο Χουρμουζιάδης υπήρξε υπότροφος του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών κατά το έτος 1966. Το ακαδημαϊκό έργο του επικεντρώθηκε στη δραματουργία και την θεατρικότητα στην αρχαία τραγωδία, ιδιαίτερα […]
New Online Publication at CHS The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy’s Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990) is now available as part of the CHS Online Publications collection. Pindar’s Homer continues the work that Nagy began in two previous books: The Best of the Achaeans […]
The Center for Hellenic Studies is preparing “Hour 25” a sequel to the edX/HarvardX course, The Ancient Greek Hero, taught by Professor Gregory Nagy. Hour 25 is intended for those who participated in the first session of the HarvardX project, what we call HeroesXv1.
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Steering Song by Kevin McGrath LIKE a boat within another hull In which we oblivious rest, Unaware of our voyage or Destination of the bound vessel. A lioness walks the deck unseen And the captain is a captive, On the mast a vine springs Between untruth and truth we sail. Concealed by the rain we […]
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We are especially pleased to share the following conversation with CHS author and classicist Douglas Frame about his innovative approach to Homer, the non-traditional path of his career, and his influential publications. CHS: You’ve authored two important books on Homer that are closely related but separated by almost 30 years. Your first book, The Myth of […]
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We are especially pleased to share the following conversation with CHS author and classicist Douglas Frame about his innovative approach to Homer, the non-traditional path of his career, and his influential publications. CHS: You’ve authored two important books on Homer that are closely related but separated by almost 30 years. Your first book, The Myth of […]
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in Context by Yannis Papadogiannakis. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. This book—the first full-length study of the “last and most beautiful” apology against paganism, Theodoret’s Therapeutic for Hellenic Maladies—combines […]
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Join the Fall 2013 session of HeroesX now. New participants are welcome through December 31. Project Update – October 2013 Since the project was launched in March 2013, The Ancient Greek Hero has enrolled over 36,000 participants from over 170 countries. Participants in the inaugural session completed the challenging material at promising rates. More importantly, […]