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“I was really struck by the fact that we still know very little about the people who were involved in the trafficking of all these ancient objects that today adorn museums in Europe and the US. They all have amazing personal stories.” —Yannis Galanakis We recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with […]
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We are pleased to announce that Anuv Ratan (Harvard University, ’14) is the winner of the 2012 Heroes Essay Contest for his paper titled “Anger in the Iliad : Mēnis, Kholos, and Social Order.” Anuv’s work was chosen from among many beautiful essays written for Gregory Nagy’s Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization course, […]
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Students and researchers can use the HMT Image Citation Tool to “quote” from high resolution images of the Venetus A. This tutorial attempts to provide very practical, step-by-step guidance to help new users create and use quotations from these valuable images.
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus by Norman B. Sandridge, available now through Harvard University Press. You can preview this work by downloading the introduction here. Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing […]
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Victor Bers’ GENOS DIKANIKON: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens is now available on the CHS website (chs.harvard.edu). In this monograph Victor Bers attempts to show that many features of Athenian court speech in the deluxe form we know […]
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“True improvisation has nothing really to do with “making stuff up on the spot”; rather it is the creative and inspired weaving together of previously rehearsed material…” —Graeme Bird We recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with professor, musician, and CHS author Graeme D. Bird about his work on ancient Homeric papyri, […]
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In early August, the co-editors of the Homer Multitext Project, Casey Dué (University of Houston) and Mary Ebbott (College of the Holy Cross), were awarded a prestigious NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant for over $275,000 to publish a diplomatic edition of the Venetus A. The Venetus A is a 10th Century manuscript that is our […]
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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 […]