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HAA-CHS Spring Break Trip to Greece

Join Professor Gregory Nagy and a group of students, HeroesX participants, and alumni, March 15–23 2019, on the Harvard Alumni Travels – Center for Hellenic Studies Spring Break Trip 2019, an immersive, 9-day exploration of Greece! Travel back in time to ancient Greece, starting in the charming seaport town of Nafplio, home to Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Then proceed through the Peloponnese to Delphi and Athens. Explore Greece’s… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Pindar’s Poetics of Homecoming, with Maša Ćulumović

We were pleased to welcome back Maša Ćulumović, Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, as a guest for a discussion on Pindar’s Poetics of Homecoming. The event took place on Thursday, November 15, at 11:00 a.m. EST, and was recorded. The main focus passages for this discussion are: the whole of Olympian 5 Olympian 1.1–24 Olympian 9.1–20 Pythian 11.1–16 although it might be helpful to read them all in… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | November 2018: Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes

Seven warriors, fierce regiment-commanders, slaughtered a bull over a black shield, and then touching the bull’s gore with their hands they swore an oath by Arēs, by Enyo, and by Rout who delights in blood, that either they will level the city [polis] and sack the Kadmeians’ town [astu] by force [biā], or will in death smear this soil with their blood. This month’s Book Club selection is the Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus.… Read more

Texts

Introducing Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes

A “heroized” edition of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes We are pleased to share a revised translation of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes that tracks Core Vocab words in the same way as the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation used in HeroesX.[1] This was the result of a community-driven collaborative “heroization” project. The group revised a translation to indicate each and every occurrence of a Heroes core vocabulary term and to… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The Free First Thousand Years of Greek, with Leonard Muellner

We were pleased to welcome back Leonard Muellner, who introduces the features and plans for the CHS project entitled The Free First Thousand Years of Greek (FF1K). It forms part of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGL), which aims to bring together in machine-actionable form all the Classical Greek and Latin texts from antiquity up to the present, to include both ancient and Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek texts, papyri, and… Read more