The Center for Hellenic Studies
FIG.1. Stamna region (and other Protogeometric sites in Aetolia, Greece). I. Stamna Basics The Protogeometric period in Stamna, Aetolia,…
Introduction During my stay at the CHS in Washington I worked on a collaborative project with Dr. Olga Gioulika Christakopoulou.
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Past approaches to architecture examined houses from a functionalistic point of view and…
Citation with persistent identifier: Ricl, Marijana. “A New Corpus of Greek and Latin Inscriptions from the Kaystros River Valley in…
Citation with persistent identifier: Amendola, Davide. “The Eagle and the Owl: Athenian Legacies in Early Ptolemaic Alexandria.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019).
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:Pinol-VillanuevaA.Citizens_and_Foreigners_in_Archaic_Greece.2018 Escaping from the narrow Aristotelian definition of ‘citizenship’ based on the taking of political office, I…
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 This research examines maidens’ somatised emotional responses to womanhood in antiquity, as this…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The CHS pre-doctoral fellowship has represented for me an extremely important appointment both for…
Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2021-22 Among the numerous testimonies concerning the 1821 Greek Revolution, Cesare Vitali’s account has…
Teucer (Τεῦκρος), the legendary founder of Salamis in Cyprus, is not registered among the prominent figures in classical literature,…
The aim of this project was dual: to explore the reception of American culture, and especially literature, in Greece…
My current research aims to answer three interrelated questions: (a) What did the botanical knowledge of the archaic and the…
The paper seeks to reassess some of the evidence for the offering of portions to the gods during animal…
Citation with persistent identifier: Schipporeit, Sven. “The New Order of Time and Cult in Synoecized Poleis.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kouloumentas, Stavros. “Prodicus on the rise of civilization: religion, agriculture, and culture heroes.” CHS Research Bulletin 4,…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ChritiM.Aristotle_as_a_Name-giver.2018 In this survey an attempt is made to examine whether Aristotle’s approaches to language, as depicted in…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:KoentgesT.Computational_Analysis_of_the_Corpus_Platonicum.2018 The Corpus Platonicum is one of the most well-known and most influential works of ancient literature.
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:FerellaC.Dogmata_Rules_Prohibitions.2018 As part of a large body of traditional Pythagorean wisdom, symbola are short sentences concerning diverse…
The Classical period represents the peak of the joint cult of Pan and the Nymphs in Attica. [1]…
Although it is relatively common to see references to speech acts or the work of speech act theorists in…
(Center for Hellenic Studies Harvard University Summer Fellowship 2024-2025) Over the course of this six-week fellowship, I was able to…
(Center for Hellenic Studies Harvard University Summer Fellowship 2024-2025) [1] Arete is a core…
For the duration of my residency at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Spring of 2024), my research plan involved the…
FIG.1. Stamna region (and other Protogeometric sites in Aetolia, Greece). I. Stamna Basics The Protogeometric period in Stamna, Aetolia,…
Project overview During my summer fellowship at CHS, I worked on my new project entitled “Fabula Technologiae: Antiquity in Soviet…
My summer fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies centered on an article project which explored the state and local…
Introduction During my stay at the CHS in Washington I worked on a collaborative project with Dr. Olga Gioulika Christakopoulou.
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24 The study of slavery is among the major preoccupations of ancient historians;…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24 Introduction In June 2023, on the very day my previous fellowship in Istanbul…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 The CHS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies has been a pivotal milestone in my…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Past approaches to architecture examined houses from a functionalistic point of view and…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24 1. Introduction The coastline as a maritime cultural landscape is possibly the most…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24 The “Isiac gods” is a term used to describe a dozen divine figures…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 The CHS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies has been a transformative experience in my…
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24 This research project examines the interplay between global and local in the…
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Strauss’ first reference to Xenophon can be found in a letter to his…
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Introduction The personae of the ancient Greek divinities were poetically shaped. […
CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023–24 Acknowledgements I am deeply indebted to the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard…
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23 The information on the Greek American women in the intellectual and literary…
University of Crete Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23 In 2022 I had the unique privilege of being appointed as…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23 The research project offered a study of the ritual mask based on bibliographic…
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Artemis was a particularly beloved goddess, not just in the ancient…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23 From ancient times until the early modern period, determining the arrangement of the planets…
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Few Geometric settlements are as well-preserved as Zagora on Andros (900-700…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Scattered inscriptions lying in ruins, whether found in their original archaeological setting or…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Although archaeological research has revealed a densely occupied landscape on the coastal…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 I was awarded a CHS Early Career Fellowship for 2022-2023 in support…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021-22 Introduction The Mycenaean culture was the first Greek civilization, placed in the Late…
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021-22 Introduction A storm of events led to the Collapse of the Palatial…
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 Urban dance is often used as an umbrella term which encompasses hip hop,…
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22 This research examines maidens’ somatised emotional responses to womanhood in antiquity, as this…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The aim of my proposed research during the pre-Doctoral fellowship on Hellenic Studies was…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The CHS pre-doctoral fellowship has represented for me an extremely important appointment both for…
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22 The research project which I have worked on during my CHS Pre-doctoral Fellowship…
Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2021-22 Among the numerous testimonies concerning the 1821 Greek Revolution, Cesare Vitali’s account has…
CHS-International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 The aim of this project is twofold: first, to…
CHS–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 In Euripides’ Electra, Orestes comes to Argos from Phokis to exact revenge…
CHS–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 The paper presented the events that shaped the course…
CHS–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 My project aims at an intra-relational consideration of the concept of…
CHS–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 When I applied to the Center for Hellenic Studies with…
CHS–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21 The paper explores the athletic festivities of Roman Athens,…
Teucer (Τεῦκρος), the legendary founder of Salamis in Cyprus, is not registered among the prominent figures in classical literature,…
The aim of this project was dual: to explore the reception of American culture, and especially literature, in Greece…
Messene in the southwestern Peloponnese was one of the most important cities of the region during the Hellenistic and Roman…
My current research aims to answer three interrelated questions: (a) What did the botanical knowledge of the archaic and the…
This project examines the nature and function of several important bodies in Hellenistic Stoic physics: the active principle, the passive…
This project focuses on Jewish identity in antiquity, analyzing the relationship between literary practices, identity construction, and multilingualism in the…
Several scholars have posited a word- or clitic group-final low boundary tone for ancient Greek. The boundary tone would motivate…
My research focuses on the social dimensions of Aegean mortuary practices, which I attempt to approach through a multidisciplinary bioarchaeological…
I spent a productive Fall semester 2020 at the Center for Hellenic Studies, where I worked on my second book…
Challenging the way we view the development of Greek archaeological practices, my book-length project, “In Times of War and Crisis:…
As a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, I am currently developing the results of a chapter…
My project studies the role of numbers, counting, and calculation in Attic oratory. At the CHS, I focused on two…
During my year-long appointment as a CHS-AUTH fellow in Hellenic Studies, I had the opportunity to work on my…
The current study presents 28 epigraphic testimonies of women who practice medicine in a wide geographic area, such as: Attica,…
In the context of the one-year fellowship offered to me by the collaborative programme between the Center for Hellenic Studies…
In October 2018, I applied to Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (henceforth CHS) with the project “The Rhythm of…
The monograph interrogates the close of the first historical work, Herodotus’ Histories, as an entrée to key refrains in the…
Xenophon’s use of slavery as an analogy for political unfreedom permeates his writings, including those revered by the country’s Founding…
When Greeks and Romans thought about Pharaonic Egypt, they would have named Sesostris as the land’s most iconic ruler. From…
In plays about war and homecoming, male and female characters are both traumatized by the extreme events that disrupt their…
I spent a wonderful (all things considered) Spring semester 2020 at the Center for Hellenic Studies, where I worked primarily…
My main project at CHS this semester, provisionally entitled Uncanny Intruders, seeks to understand Greek literature’s fascination with what Sarah…
Often compared with West Asian and Egyptian texts, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (hereafter Hymn) and the other variants of…
Citation with persistent identifier: Aimar, Simona. “Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Modality.” CHS Research Bulletin 8 (2020). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:AimarS.Aristotles_Metaphysics_of_Modality.2020. The…
Citation with persistent identifier: Lather, Amy. “Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry.” CHS Research Bulletin 8 (2020). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:LatherA.Materiality_and_Aesthetics_in_Archaic_and_Classical_Greek_Poetry.2020 In…
Citation with persistent identifier: Das, Aileen. “Ars Brevis: Temporal and Exegetical Compressions in Greco-Roman and Islamicate Medicine.” CHS Research Bulletin 8 (2020). …
Citation with persistent identifier: Kalliontzis, Yannis. “The Shrine of the Valley of the Muses: An Archaeological, Historical and Literary Revisited.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Margaritis, Evi. “Agriculture and Subsistence Practices in the Dawn of Urbanisation of Europe: The Cyclades in the…
Citation with persistent identifier: Pierini, Rachele. “New Features in Old Texts. A Diachronic Study of Linear B Tablets from the…
Citation with persistent identifier: Pellegrino, Manuela. “The Legacy of Ancient Greek Ideals at Times of Environmental Crisis: Heritage, Democracy and…
Citation with persistent identifier: Rosamilia, Emilio. “Silver Cups from Cyrene: Between Royal Gifts and Numismatic Implications.” CHS Research Bulletin 8 (2020). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:RosamiliaE.Silver_Cups_from_Cyrene.2020…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kotzamani, Marina. “Lysistrata on Stage and on the Street: Aristophanes, Popular Theater and Politics from the…
My project explores Lysistrata’s extraordinary performance history, unearthing a staging tradition of Aristophanes as popular theater, stretching continuously over…
This is a book-length project that investigates the political implications of Euripides’ dialogue with cult, iconography and architecture, mainly…
Setting out to study the significance of Euripidean representations of cultic activities, I have used Andromache as a case…
Whereas word order in Ancient Greek has long seemed to be an unsolvable crux of ancient grammar, recent advances…
Citation with persistent identifier: Moore, Timothy J. “Unheard Melodies: Music and Meaning in Ancient Greek and Roman Theater.” CHS Research Bulletin 7…
Citation with persistent identifier: Tsouni, Georgia. “Wise Citizens and Other Arguments for the Defense of Democracy in Aristotle’s Politics.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Smith, Joshua. “Homer in the Margins: Literary Citation and the Ancient Commentary.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SmithJ.Homer_in_the_Margins.2019…
Citation with persistent identifier: Paschalidis, Constantinos. “From Grave Circle A to the Hellenistic Theater: The Birth of Agamemnon’s Legend on…
Citation with persistent identifier: Németh, Attila. “The Metaphors of Conscientia in Seneca’s Epistles.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:NemethA.The_Metaphors_of_Conscientia.2019 In his…
Citation with persistent identifier: Brouillet, Manon. “Epics and Ritual: Reconsidering Homeric Performance in Ancient Greece.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BrouilletM.Epics_and_Ritual.2019 My project…
Citation with persistent identifier: Earley, Ben. “The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)interpreting Thucydides’ Political Thought Before, During, and After the Great War.” CHS…
Citation with persistent identifier: Karamitsou, Dimitra. “A Psychological Study of Dreams in Hellenistic Poetry.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BoufalisD.A_Psychological_Study_of_Dreams_in_Hellenistic_Poetry.2019 The aim of…
Citation with persistent identifier: Boufalis, Angelos. “Local Scripts in Archaic Macedonia.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BoufalisA.Local_Scripts_in_Archaic_Macedonia.2019 Up to the end of the…
Citation with persistent identifier: Alepidou, Apostolia. “Near-Eastern Echoes in Iliad XVI 33-35.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:AlepidouA.Near-Eastern_Echoes_in_Iliad_XVI_33-35.2019 The aim of…
Citation with persistent identifier: Harris Cline, Diane and Eleni Hasaki. “The Connected World of Potters in Ancient Athens: Collaborations, Connoisseurship,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Paga, Jessica. “Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:PagaJ.Building_Democracy_in_Late_Archaic_Athens.2019 Democracy emerged in…
Citation with persistent identifier: Reece, Bryan C. “Happiness According to Aristotle.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ReeceB.Happiness_According_to_Aristotle.2019 Aristotle thinks that…
Citation with persistent identifier: Reid, Heather. “Heroic Mimēsis and the Ancient Greek Athletic Spirit.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ReidH.Heroic_Mimesis_and_the_Ancient_Greek_Athletic_Spirit.2019 …
Citation with persistent identifier: Ricl, Marijana. “A New Corpus of Greek and Latin Inscriptions from the Kaystros River Valley in…
Citation with persistent identifier: Woodard, Roger. “Aeolian Origins.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:WoodardR.Aeolian_Origins.2019 In recent years it has been…
Citation with persistent identifier: Lundgreen, Christoph. “Dimensions of Staatlichkeit in the Early Greek World.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:LundgreenC.Dimensions_of_Staatlichkeit.2019 …
Citation with persistent identifier: Duplouy, Alain. “Epimenides the Cretan: A History of Athens (6th-5th c. BC).” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019).
Citation with persistent identifier: Amendola, Davide. “The Eagle and the Owl: Athenian Legacies in Early Ptolemaic Alexandria.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019).
Persistent identifier with citation: Harris Cline, Diane. “The Social Network of Socrates.” CHS Research Bulletin 7 (2019). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ClineD.The_Social_Network_of_Socrates.2019 To enlarge a figure,…
Social Network Analysis is a tool that can be applied when a data set has many relationships and one…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ClintonM.The_Minoan_Modeling_Project.2018 In the last few years, 3D modeling has become increasingly popular in archaeology, but it is…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:LempireJ.Ptolemaeus_Byzantinus.2018 My research aims to make an important contribution to the history of Greek astronomy through the…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:Pinol-VillanuevaA.Citizens_and_Foreigners_in_Archaic_Greece.2018 Escaping from the narrow Aristotelian definition of ‘citizenship’ based on the taking of political office, I…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SheltonK.Petsas_House_Mycenae.2018 This book manuscript is the final publication of my archaeological excavation of ‘Petsas House’ at the…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SitzA.Inscribing_Temples_in_Greece_and_Asia_Minor.2018 My research centers on new approaches to epigraphic material, highlighting their physical characteristics and architectural contexts…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:UsherM.Cosmos_to_Commons.2018 Cosmos [to] Commons presents a genealogy of modern ideas about sustainability and complex systems through a…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:LambrinouL.Inter-regional_Doric_Influences_and_Developments.2018 My research at DAI/CHS concerns the investigation of architectural influences and morphological developments of the Doric…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:DellOroF.The_Others.2018 During my stay at CHS I worked on my main project ‘The Others. Looking for diversity…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ArmstrongR_and_LianeriA.Companion_to_the_Translation_of_Greek_and_Latin_Epic.2018 Our joint fellowship was awarded to aid our co-editorial project, A Companion to the Translation of…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:OikonomakiA.Achaioi_Argeioi_Danaoi.2018 My aim in this project is to examine the system of the denomination of the Greeks within…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ChritiM.Aristotle_as_a_Name-giver.2018 In this survey an attempt is made to examine whether Aristotle’s approaches to language, as depicted in…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BronsC.Sensing_the_Ancient_World.2018 Introduction The five senses -visual, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, and auditory– are mostly perceived as something we as…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:KoentgesT.Computational_Analysis_of_the_Corpus_Platonicum.2018 The Corpus Platonicum is one of the most well-known and most influential works of ancient literature.
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:WalthallA.A_Measured_Harvest.2018 During the reign of the Syracusan monarch Hieron II (276-215 BCE), Sicily’s famed agricultural resources were,…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:FerellaC.Dogmata_Rules_Prohibitions.2018 As part of a large body of traditional Pythagorean wisdom, symbola are short sentences concerning diverse…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:ViltaniotiIF.Myth_and_Philosophy_in_Late_Antique_Neoplatonism.2018 During my term at the CHS (Fall 2017), I have jointly worked on: (a) my CHS project,…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:MassettiL.Kestos_Himas.2018 In this project, I investigate a number of Greek mythological traditions by means of a comparative…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BachvarovaM.Calling_the_Gods.2018 “The tongue is a bridge!” So exclaims the practitioner, probably an Old Woman, to the Sun-goddess of…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BenteinK.Social_Identity_Social_Meaning_and_the_Dynamics_of_Everyday_Writing.2018 Recent studies of Ancient Greek have drawn attention to the social significance of linguistic choice. So…
Persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:PrattC.Gift_of_Athena.2018 In this project, I take a long-term approach to the production, distribution, and consumption of Athenian…
Citation with persistent identifier: Fappas, Yannis. “Archaeology Through Archives: The Early History of the Archaeological Research in Boeotia Through Original…
Citation with persistent identifier: Badoud, Nathan. “Deciphering Greek Amphora Stamps.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2017). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BadoudN.Deciphering_Greek_Amphora_Stamps.2017 §1 One day in…
Citation with persistent identifier: Harris, Jason. “Scholarship and Leadership on the Black Sea: Clearchus of Heraclea as (Un)enlightened Tyrant.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Lewis, Virginia. “Place and Identity in Pindar’s Olympian 2.”CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2017). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:LewisV.Place_and_Identity_in_Olympian_2.2017…
Citation with persistent identifier: Nasioula, Maria. Διονύσιος: Τhe grammarian, the potter and the ghosts. CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2017). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:NasioulaM.Dionysios.2017…
Citation with persistent identifier: Hawes, Greta. “Two Tombs for Hyrnetho: A Case Study in Localism and Mythographic Topography.” CHS Research Bulletin 5,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Papadimitriou, Nikolas. “Συνοίκησις in Mycenaean Times? The Political and Cultural Geography of Attica in the Second…
Citation with persistent identifier: Carbon, Jan-Mathieu (Mat). “At the Table of the Gods? Divine Appetites and Animal Sacrifice.”CHS Research Bulletin 5,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Meeusen, Michiel. “Between Seriousness and Play: Imperial Platonic Readings of the Aristotelian Natural Problems (Plutarch, Taurus,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Mac Sweeney, Naoíse. “Greek colonies and their neighbors in Rough Cilicia.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2017). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:MacSweeneyN.Greek_Colonies_and_Their_Neighbors.2017…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kirk, Athena. “Swelling Women: Formulaics in the Hesiodic Catalogue.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2017). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:KirkA.Swelling_Women.2017…
About 300,000 Greek amphora stamps have been discovered so far. What were they used for? They themselves do…
Four grammatika vases bearing signatures are the starting point of this paper, which aims to uncover the people behind…
A number of scholars have expressed the view that the synoikismos (political unification) of Attica took place in Mycenaean times.
Clearchus of Heraclea Pontica, who ruled as tyrant from 364 to 352 BC, provides an interesting case-study in the intersection…
This paper examines a formulaic phrase in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, ἣ δ’ ὑποκυσαμένη. While its context in the…
My current book project, Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes, examines the way that local topographical features are…
How did Greek settlements interact and relate with their non-Greek neighbors? A sophisticated picture of these relationships is beginning to…
This paper considers the factors which shaped myths as both a shared tradition and an amalgam of conflicting variants and…
The aim of this contribution is to examine how the Natural Problems, attributed to Aristotle (but only partially authentic), were…
The paper examines the fascinating early history of the archaeological research in Boeotia during the 19th century. Based on original,…
The paper seeks to reassess some of the evidence for the offering of portions to the gods during animal…
Citation with persistent identifier: Stamatopoulou, Zoe. “Constructing Periander in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 1…
Citation with persistent identifier: Schlosser, Joel Alden. “Herodotean Democracies.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 1 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SchlosserJ.Herodotean_Democracies.2016 I. 1§1 To study…
Citation with persistent identifier: Scharff, Sebastian. “Improving the Public Image Through Athletics: Young Victors in Hellenistic Thebes.” CHS Research Bulletin 5,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Aufderheide, Joachim. “Aristotelian Piety Reconsidered.” CHS Research Bulletin 5, no. 1 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:AufderheideJ.Aristotelian_Piety_Reconsidered.2016 Introduction 1§1 Aristotle apparently…
Citation with persistent identifier: Chronopoulos, Stylianos. “Logical Categories and the Parts of Speech System as Structuring Devices in Pollux’ Onomasticon.”…
Citation with persistent identifier: BAI, Chun Xiao. “The Cyclic Views of the Human Condition in Thucydides’ Archaeology and Sima Qian’s…
What can Herodotus say to today’s democracies? This essay begins from a puzzle about the very language of…
In Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages, a seer called Diocles recounts what transpired at a symposium hosted…
Pollux’ Onomasticon is a Greek dictionary of the 2nd century CE. It is the first extant representative of…
The political history of Hellenistic Thebes was far from a success story. Razed to the ground by Alexander in 335…
Aristotle apparently does not discuss piety in the Nicomachean Ethics, certainly not overtly. Against an ingenious proposal by Sarah…
It seems to me that both Greek and Chinese historical thinking originally investigated the past and reconstructed cultural memories with…
Citation with persistent identifier: Smith, Neel. “Two Thousand Years of Scholarly Apps.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SmithN.Two_Thousand_Years_of_Scholarly_Apps.2016 https://youtu.be/6TwXYHdUiCY…
Citation with persistent identifier: Schipporeit, Sven. “The New Order of Time and Cult in Synoecized Poleis.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2…
Citation with persistent identifier: Brélaz, Cédric. “Democracy and Civic Participation in Greek Cities Under Roman Imperial Rule: Political Practice and…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kouloumentas, Stavros. “Prodicus on the rise of civilization: religion, agriculture, and culture heroes.” CHS Research Bulletin 4,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Moore, Christopher. “Anaxagoras, Socrates, and the history of “philosophy.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:MooreC.Anaxagoras_Socrates_and_the_History_of_Philosophy.2016 https://youtu.be/OCKSmPDzjlM…
Citation with persistent identifier: Noel, Anne-Sophie. “Love is in the hands: Affective relationships with objects in votive dedications.” CHS Research Bulletin 4,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kosmin, Paul J. “A Short Introduction to the Seleucid Era.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:KosminP.Introduction_to_the_Seleucid_Era.2016…
Citation with persistent identifier: Carless Unwin, Naomi. “What’s in a name? Linguistic considerations in the study of ‘Karian’ religion.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Stark, Caroline. “Spike Lee’s Didactic Lens of Aristophanes.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2016). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:StarkC.Spike_Lees_Didactic_Lens_of_Aristophanes.2016 https://youtu.be/ajHPSCzlUgU…
This paper comprises two parts. The first section will give an insight into my global project on “feelings…
The half-dozen fifth-century attestations to the word philosophos (and its cognates), from Eastern and Western Greece, do not…
Modern reworkings of ancient drama offer a valuable interpretative and didactic lens through which scholars can re-examine issues and themes…
Prodicus gained a reputation for formulating a novel theory concerning the origins of religious belief. He suggests that humans initially regarded…
The study of religion in Karia, in south western Anatolia, is inextricably linked with the wider social dynamics of the…
The Seleucid Era, the official tally of years employed by the Seleucid Empire, was the first linear and…
This paper first looks at how ancient scholars exploited the technology of writing to add functions — or,…
In 408/7 BC, the old Rhodian cities of Ialysus, Camirus, and Lindus united to form one polis and…
It has been assumed in scholarship for a long time that democracy was characteristic of 5th-century BCE Athens and that…
Citation with persistent identifier: Ioanna Sitaridou. “Reframing the Phylogeny of Asia Minor Greek: The View from Pontic Greek.” CHS Research Bulletin…
Citation with persistent identifier: Doyen, Charles. “An Athenian Decree Revisited.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no.1 (2015). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:DoyenC.An_Athenian_Decree_Revisited.2016 Michel Fourmont’s…
Citation with persistent identifier: Barrenechea, Francisco. “A sanctuary model for representing incubation in Classical Athens.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 1 (2015). …
Citation with persistent identifier: Ast, Rodney. “Writing and the City in Later Roman Egypt. Towards a Social History of the…
Citation with persistent identifier: Agócs, Peter. “Preface to Pindar: Early Classical Choral Songs and the Language of Genre.” CHS Research Bulletin 4,…
As part of a larger project on the practical application of literate education in antiquity, this paper highlights one segment…
In this article we discuss some of the crucial issues pertaining to the evolution and classification of Pontic Greek. In…
The paper, which argues that Greek philology needs an injection of cultural relativism and attention to indigenous ways of thinking…
The fate of Palamedes fascinated classical Athens: unjustly accused by Odysseus, he was convicted of treason and executed by the…
Aristophanes’ comic narrative of a miracle cure of Asklepios in Wealth 627-759 reflects a model for representing this experience that…
This paper focuses on an Athenian decree implementing a fundamental metrological reform at the end of the 2nd century BCE.
Citation with persistent identifier: Dana, Madalina. “Connecting People: Mobility and Networks in the Corpus of Greek Private Letters.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Paul, Stéphanie. “Local Pantheons in Motion: Synoecism and Patron Deities in Hellenistic Rhodes.” CHS Research Bulletin…
Citation with persistent identifier: Ali, Seemee. “Seeing Hera in the Iliad.” CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 2 (2015).
Citation with persistent identifier: Constantakopoulou, Christy. “The Social Dynamics of Dedication in the Delian Inventories of the Third Century: Audience,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Petraki, Zacharoula. “Painting, Ethics, and Ontology in Plato’s Republic 5.” CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 2…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kansa, Eric. “Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology.” CHS Research Bulletin 3, no.
Citation with persistent identifier: Xanthou, Maria G. “Isocrates’ Theory of Goodwill (Eunoia) as a Precursor of Emotional Intelligence.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Nervegna, Sebastiana. “The Actors’ Repertoire, Fifth-Century Comedy and Early Tragic Revivals.” CHS Research Bulletin 3, no.
Citation with persistent identifier: Birney, Kate. “To the Dregs: Drawing Meaning from the Rhodian Handles of Hellenistic Ashkelon.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Vessella, Carlo. “Atticist Lexica and the Pronunciation of Greek.” CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 1 (2014). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:VessellaC.Atticist_Lexica_and_the_Pronunciation_of_Greek.2014…
Though digital data is assuming increasing importance in archaeological research, it still plays only a minor role in scholarly…
This paper addresses some of the limitations of the concept of patron deity through the case-study of the island of…
Εunoia is one of Isocrates’ core paideutic concepts. In my article, I aim to show that if Isocratean philosophical and…
In this paper I examine Plato’s use of the art of painting in the Republic, Book 5 as a metaphor…
This contribution deals with the theatrical afterlife of Euripides’ Telephus, Aeschylus’Edonians and Libation Bearers. The sources for their ancient reception share two features: (i) Classical dramatists…
The goal of this article is primarily to highlight the phenomenon of the communication trough letter-writing from the city to…
My project explores the social dynamics of dedication, as they are reflected in the dedications recorded in the Delian inventories…
Rhodian amphorae, distinctive for their shape and their rose-stamped handles, are emblematic of specialized wine trade during the Hellenistic period.
Hera is the most under-appreciated deity in the pantheon of Homer’s Iliad. Inseminating mortals with thoughts and understanding the secret…
Citation with persistent identifier: Hong, Yurie. “Poetic Authority and the Utility of Reproduction in Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days.” CHS…
Citation with persistent identifier: Fowler, Ryan, and Quiroga-Puertas, Alberto. “Silence and Rumor as Rhetorical Strategies in Basil’s Letters.” CHS Research Bulletin 3,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Flouda, Georgia. “Minoan Communities and Commemorative Practices: The Late Prepalatial to Protopalatial Tholos Tomb A at…
Citation with persistent identifier: Feuser, Stefan. “A Stroll along the Sea: The Processional Way in Ephesus and the Littoral.” CHS…
This paper examines the rhetorical function of reproduction in the Theogony and the Works and Days. It is grounded in…
In this project we have analyzed the use of two non-technical communication strategies—rumor and silence—in the epistles of Basil of…
This paper focuses on the early stages of ancient rhetorical education, as a foundation for exploring the emotions involved in the…
The presentation examines the communal Tholos Tomb A at Apesokari in south-central Crete as the diachronic locus of the commemorative…
It can be proven that Atticist lexica contain information on a special pronunciation of Greek, which the Atticists aimed at…
Port cities played an essential role in the history of the ancient Mediterranean. Due to their location…
Citation with persistent identifier: Janse, Mark, & Joseph, Brian. “A New Historical Grammar of Demotic Greek: Reflections on the Κοινή…
Citation with persistent identifier: Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela. “Trojan War by Homer: Retaliation, Narrative Order, and Cretan Focus.” CHS Research Bulletin 2,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Cazzato, Vanessa. “Reclining with Callinus and Tyrtaeus: Martial Elegy in the Symposion.” CHS Research Bulletin 2,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Tsagalis, Christos. “Placing the Muses: Eumelus fragments 34–35 (West).” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 2 (2014).
Citation with persistent identifier: Yang, Juping. “Hellenistic Information in China.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 2 (2014). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:YangJ.Hellenistic_Information_in_China.2014…
Citation with persistent identifier: Marquis, Emeline.
Citation with persistent identifier: Tamiolaki, Melina. “Plato and Xenophon on Friendship. A Comparative Study (Plato Lysis and Xenophon Conversations of…
Citation with persistent identifier: Pavlou, Maria. “Khronos, Cronos, and the Cronion Hill: The Spatialization of Time in Pindar’s Olympian 10.”…
Citation with persistent identifier: Carrara, Aurélie.”Prevention or Cure? Tax Exemptions in a Warfare Context: Miletus and the Low Valley of…
Citation with persistent identifier: Cinalli, Angela. “Οὐ τὸ νικᾶν ἀλλὰ τὸ εὖ ἀγωνίζεσθαι: Playing to win or to show off?…
Citation with persistent identifier: Martín González, Elena. “Leisure Rules in Archaic Greece: Legislation on Inebriation and Foul Play in Literary…
Citation with persistent identifier: Pont, Anne-Valérie. “The City at the Theater in Anatolia from the 260s to the 320s AD:…
Life in the cities of Asia Minor between the 260s and the 320s is rarely studied: there is a bibliographical…
Citation with persistent identifier: Lamari, Anna. “Early Reperformances of Drama in the Fifth Century.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 2…
The eastern conquest of Alexander the Great not only created a new Hellenistic world and civilization but also established the…
That martial elegy, like all shorter elegy, belonged to (some form of) the symposion has become a matter of scholarly…
Our project began as the first steps toward an updating of Albert Thumb’s classic work, Handbuch der neugriechischen Volkssprache, originally…
The epigraphic documentation of Hellenistic Delphi testifies to an extremely active involvement of the poeti vaganti in a dynamic and…
Time holds a central and prominent place in Pindar’s Olympian 10. My paper focuses on a specific passage (49-55) which, as…
In the early second century BCE, Miletus attempted to increase its territorial control at the expense of its neighbors, Magnesia…
The Letters of Phalaris belong to fictive epistolography: the corpus comprises 148 letters attributed to Phalaris, the Sicilian tyrant from…
Archaic legislation reflects the effort of the Greek communities to regulate a wide spectrum of conflictive public issues. Rules for…
The present paper offers a comparative interpretation of Plato’s Lysis and Xenophon’s Memorabilia 2.6 on the topic of friendship. I…
After the work of Will (1955) on the Corinthiaca, the editions by Bernabé (1987), Davies (1988), and West (2003), and the…
This paper investigates the early reperformances of ancient Greek drama in the fifth century BC. By reconsidering epigraphical and literary…
The tale of the Trojan War passes through all Greek Classical Literature in an unusual transverse way. On the one…
Martín-Hernández, Raquel. “Using Homer for Divination: Homeromanteia in Context.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 1 (2013). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:MartinHernandezR.Using_Homer_for_Divination_Homeromanteia_in_Context.2013 Aim §1 Much has been…
Citation with persistent identifier: Huang, Yang. “Perceptions of the Barbarian in Early Greece and China.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 1 (2013). …
Citation with persistent identifier: Coutsinas, Nadia. “The Establishment of the City-States of Eastern Crete from the Archaic to the Roman…
Citation with persistent identifier: Lienemann, Béatrice. “Aristotle’s Treatment of Force and Compulsion as Exculpatory Conditions for Moral Responsibility.” CHS Research Bulletin 2,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Collins, James. “Socrates in the Marketplace.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 1 (2013). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:CollinsJ.Socrates_in_the_Market_Place.2013…
Citation with persistent identifier: Buis, Emiliano J. “The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership…
Why does Socrates frequent, and often use the language of, the marketplace? Why, when so many of his elite interlocutors…
The ancient Greeks and Chinese bear striking similarities in their attitudes towards other peoples, often calling them ‘barbarians’. This…
In Aristophanes’ comedy Birds (414 BCE), the protagonist Peisetaerus —not surprisingly named as “he who persuades his…
This paper explores Aristotle’s conception of responsibility in the Eudemian Ethics and the Nicomachean Ethics by focusing on one representative…
The island of Crete is the largest Greek island. Unlike the others, it contains dozens of cities,…
Troy and Troas have always been a central issue for ancient and modern…
The verses of Homer were often interpreted in Antiquity as the voice of an oracle. But we have no material…
Citation with persistent identifier: Manetta, Conseulo. “The Tomb Below the Ostrusha Mound and the Painted Prosopa within the Central Boxes…
Citation with persistent identifier: Melfi, Milena. “Art in Transition: Damophon of Messene in the Ionian Coast of Greece.” CHS Research Bulletin 1,…
Citation with persistent identifier: Zarmakoupi, Mantha. “The City of Late Hellenistic Delos and the Integration of Economic Activities in the…
Citation with persistent identifier: Bultrighini, Ilaria. “Παραλία καì Μεσόγεια: ‘Coastalness’ and ‘Inlandness’ in the Ancient Greek World.” CHS Research Bulletin…
Citation with persistent identifier: Venticinque, Philip F. “Matters of Trust: Associations and Social Capital in Roman Egypt.” CHS Research Bulletin…
Citation with persistent identifier: Stocking, Charles. “Ages of Athletes: Generational Decline in Philostratus’ Gymnasticus and Archaic Greek Poetry.” CHS Research…
Citation with persistent identifier: Ismard, Paulin. “Public Slavery, Politics and Expertise in Classical Athens.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 2…
Citation with persistent identifier: Witucki, Barbara. “The Oresteia and Waterloo.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 2 (2013). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:WituckiB.The_Oresteia_and_Waterloo.2013…
Citation with persistent identifier: Park, Arum. “Gender, Genre, and Truth in Pindar: Three Case Studies.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 2 (2013).
Citation with persistent identifier: Mirguet, Françoise. “Compassion in the Making: Lexicographic Explorations in Judeo-Hellenistic Literature.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no.
Citation with persistent identifier: Mambrini, Francesco. “Thucydides 1.89-118: A Multi-layer Treebank.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 2 (2013). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:MambriniF.Thucydides_1.89-118_Multi-layer_Treebank.2013…
Citation with persistent identifier: Zhang, Wei. “Knowing Characters and Knowing Authors: ‘Poetic Knowledge’ in Ancient Greece and Early China.” CHS…
Concerns regarding the untrustworthy nature of merchants and craftsmen commonly expressed by classical authors, who instead championed agriculture for its…
Victor Hugo says that Les Misérables is “a hydra at the beginning; an angel at the end.” Taking the theme…
The Sanctuary of Dionysos Eleuthereus on the south east slope of the Acropolis in Athens and the theatron that was…
Citation with persistent identifier: Modanez de Sant Anna, Henrique. “Domination and Legitimacy in Early Hellenistic Basileia: The Rise of Self-Proclaimed…
The presentation reviews some figurative paintings inside boxes that adorned the ceiling of…
This paper consists of a preliminary reassessment of the activity and chronology of the Messenian sculptor Damophon,…
Even compassion has a history. The Greek word συμπάθεια, originally a scientific term referring to an affinity between bodies, did…
When I first started this research I was thinking about identifying different ideal types of Hellenistic kings based on the…
This paper explores three deceptive and seductive female figures in Pindar’s myths: the Hera-cloud in Pythian 2, Koronis in Pythian…
Scholarship has in the past few years dealt more systematically with connectivity and interaction in the ancient Mediterranean and in…
This essay submits the earliest articulation of explicit poetics in ancient Greece and ancient China to a…
This paper examines the organization of athletic history in Philostratus’ Gymnasticus. In the introduction to the Gymnasticus,…
Delos underwent a period of rapid economic development after 167 BCE, when the Romans put the island…
This paper presents the first steps toward the enhancement of the available annotated corpora of Ancient Greek texts with annotation on semantic…
Public slavery was an institution common to most Greek cities during the classical and hellenistic periods. From the Homeric dêmiourgos…
Citation with persistent identifier: Kaczko, Sara. “The Image and the Text: Dedicatory Epigrams on Stone and Strategies of Communication in…
Citation with persistent identifier: Marks, Jim. “The Agorē in Epic and Archaeology.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 1 (2012).
Citation with persistent identifier: Patera, Ioanna. “Ritual Practice and Material Support: Objects in Ritual Theories.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 1…
Thucydides’ well-known endorsement of Pericles praises his ability to perceive the fears of the Athenian demos and steer them in the…
Archaic Greek poems referred to a specific historical context and to a specific audience. To understand the meaning of these…
Descriptions of communities in the early Greek epics—like descriptions of places, people and things in general—tend to be cursory. Three…
Based on hitherto unpublished archival material, this paper offers a brief biographical account of Charles Louis William Merlin, who served…
“Ritual” has long attracted classicists. While building on anthropological theories, however, the field of classics has not yet fully explored…
My project deals with the interplay between image and literary-linguistic features of Archaic and Classical Attic dedicatory epigrams on stone…
Citation with persistent identifier: Visvardi, Eirene. “Collective Emotion in Thucydides.” CHS Research Bulletin 1, no. 1 (2012). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:VisvardiE.Collective_Emotion_in_Thucydides.2012…
Archaic Greek poems referred to a specific historical context and to a specific audience. To understand the meaning of these…
Based on hitherto unpublished archival material, this paper offers a brief biographical account of Charles Louis William Merlin, who served…
