Announcements

Announcements

An interview with Dr. Filippos Tsimpoglou, Director General, National Library of Greece

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

Announcements

The Homer Multitext Update

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

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Online Repository of Particle Studies

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

Announcements,  Video

Antigone Project Phase II

Students from high schools in Greece, India, the Netherlands, and the United States recently participated in the second phase of the Antigone Project, which invites students to film and share their own performances of the Antigone of Sophocles, with the goal of engaging in a meaningful comparative dialogue with fellow participants from around the globe. In this continuation of the Antigone Project, the tragedy was divided into nine sections, and… Read more

Announcements,  Travel

Exhibition Review | “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700BC–200AD”

“A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD” Onassis Cultural Center New York Onassis Foundation USA, 645 5th Ave., New York Through June 24, 2017 A guest post by David A. Beardsley Much of my own ongoing fascination with the ancient Greeks is in that theirs is the first culture with which I can readily connect, and this is largely because of the way they display their emotions. The… Read more