Volume 12 of the CHS Research Bulletin contains project reports submitted by the fellows who conducted research at the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece during the 2023-24 academic year. Persistent identifier for this issue: https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HLNC.JISSUE:104275534. Fellowship Project Reports βThe Sapphic Aphrodite: A… Read more
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023β24 Straussβ first reference to Xenophon can be found in a letter to his close friend Jacob Klein: βHerodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon are not historians [β¦] but authors of exoteric, protreptic writings.β [1] The time in which he addresses… Read more
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023β24 Introduction The personae of the ancient Greek divinities were poetically shaped. [1] Modern theoretical approaches towards the importance of literary theological discourse come to confirm the claim that poetry must be considered as a source of knowledge about… Read more
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023β24 Acknowledgements I am deeply indebted to the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University for awarding me the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies. I owe my sincere gratitude to the Academic Committee and especially to my advisor, Professor Spyridon Rangos. My special thanks… Read more
Volume 11 of the CHS Research Bulletin contains project reports submitted by the fellows who conducted research at the Center for Hellenic Studies during the 2022-23 academic year. Persistent identifier for this issue: issue urn: https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HLNC.JISSUE:103377749 Fellowship Project Reports βThe Reception of the Distance-Period Relationship in the Capellan… Read more
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23 Abstract The information on the Greek American women in the intellectual and literary circles of the first half of the twentieth century is very little. The majority of immigrant women of Greek descent, especially during the first decades of the twentieth century are… Read more
University of Crete Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022β23 In 2022 I had the unique privilege of being appointed as a Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies by the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University. This tremendous opportunity has been a milestone in my academic career, as well as a… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022β23 Abstract The research project offered a study of the ritual mask based on bibliographic research, as well as examination of archaeological findings in combination with literary sources. More specifically, it examined the places in which ritual masks have been found in the context of… Read more
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Artemis was a particularly beloved goddess, not just in the ancient city of Messene but also throughout the entire Peloponnese. Most of her sanctuaries were located outside the cities in places that demarcated the borders between regions, often near natural water… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022β23 From ancient times until the early modern period, determining the arrangement of the planets (forma mundi) posed one of the most difficult and urgent inquiries in the field of cosmology. In his cosmological system, Plato did not resolve the forma mundi problem; rather, he left it as… Read more
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Few Geometric settlements are as well-preserved as Zagora on Andros (900-700 BC; Fig. 1). A densely inhabited, fortified, coastal town with substantial excavated assemblages, the site offers a rare opportunity to contextualize EIA Aegean socio-political developments at the household level. Undisturbed by… Read more
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Scattered inscriptions lying in ruins, whether found in their original archaeological setting or embedded within the walls of public buildings, houses, and in Orthodox churches or Muslim mosques, are preserved in the old notebooks of scholars who made a concerted effort to record,… Read more
