The Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University will be honored by your presence at the Harvard Worldwide Week 2017 to attend the event: Role of an international Center in supporting the University’s global presence. Programs and collaborations in Greece. The event will be held at 4:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m., October 24, 2017, at the William James Hall auditorium B1, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138. The event is free and open to… Read more
A guest post by Leonard Muellner In October of 2016, I had the pleasure of talking about Homeric poetry to the largest audience I have ever addressed in the many years I’ve spent teaching Classics—over 500 students in a huge new amphitheater at the University of Lille in northeastern France. The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lille is part of an emphatically public system, supported by tax dollars… Read more
Pilot transfer of the first 10,000 books at the SNFCC, in order to test and secure the procedure for the relocation of all collections and equipment in the fall 2017. Dr. Filippos Tsimpoglou, Director General, National Library of Greece, sat down with CHS recently for a discussion about his vision for the National Library of Greece (NLG) and its relocation to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). The National… Read more
The Homer Multitext annual summer seminar is set to begin July 5th at CHS! As we close in on finishing our complete edition of the text and scholia of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad, we will turn our attention to Iliad 20, a book that seems preoccupied with the mythological and poetic tradition, and things happening at the wrong time. Read about Iliad 20 in the latest post… Read more
We are excited to announce the release of the Online Repository of Particle Studies (ORPS): Scholarship on twelve particles and their combinations from the 16th century to present. The Online Repository of Particle Studies is a searchable, sortable database designed to showcase the wealth of previous particle studies. An important tool for researchers, it includes information from the fourteen monographs on Greek particles that appeared between 1588 and 1993, as… Read more