Ancient Greece

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The Spring Break trip for Harvard Students and Alumni in Nafplio

March 13, 2024

The "Spring Break in Greece for Students and Alumni" trip, organized by the Harvard Alumni Association Travels and CHS Greece, has commenced under the academic leadership of Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Comparative Literature, and Naomi Weiss, Professor of the Classics and as of July 1st Chair of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. The group of 31 students and alumni started...

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CHS Greece Research Workshop 2023 completed

August 24, 2023
CHS Greece's third annual Research Workshop in Nafplio successfully concluded earlier this month. The workshop hosted a group of 14 participants who have been CHS fellows in Greece for the 2022-2023 academic year and other CHS-affiliated researchers. Participants presented a topic of interest related to the research project that is part of their affiliation with CHS and engaged in out-of-class group activities. The workshop was coordinated by Evan Katsarelis (CHS Greece & University of Athens) and Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete). This three-day event offered the Center in Greece... Read more about CHS Greece Research Workshop 2023 completed
Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Kristen Mann on interpretations of domestic life in the prehistoric settlement of Zagora in Andros

Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Kristen Mann on interpretations of domestic life in the prehistoric settlement of Zagora in Andros

May 25, 2023

Guest post by Kristen Mann, Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Material Home in Geometric Greece

During the ninth to seventh centuries BC Aegean people radically transformed their social fabric and landscape, emphasizing communal identity and paving the way for the later laws, institutions, and philosophies so emblematic of ancient Greece and its legacy today. As a consequence of growing settlement densities, social codes of interaction became more articulated, while the stresses of an expanding...

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