Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24 Abstract This research project examines the interplay between global and local in the Greco-Roman Eastern Mediterranean, using the Egyptian gods and the Syrian Goddess in Hellenistic and Roman Macedonia as case studies.* It is part of a broader… Read more
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Strauss’ first reference to Xenophon can be found in a letter to his close friend Jacob Klein: “Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon are not historians […] but authors of exoteric, protreptic writings.” [1] The time in which he addresses… Read more
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 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 2023–24 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
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
