# Research presentations by CHS Fellows Ermioni Prokopaki, Georgios Mouratidis, and Özge Acar ![A red-leafed tree wrapped in small white lights stands in front of a white building, surrounded by blooming flower beds and spring greenery along a curved stone wall and pathway.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7151/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-02/HOUSE_A_CHS_US.jpg?itok=toSarI_V) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 24, 2026** 11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **CHS in Washington, DC (via Zoom for CHS community)** [3100 Whitehaven St NW Washington, DC 20008 United States ]() [ Register for all three presentations arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/CMvI3fXCQOOnwgsG9Axd2w) - **Full title:** Research presentations by [Ermioni Prokopaki](/fellows/ermioni-prokopaki "Ermioni Prokopaki"), [Georgios Mouratidis](/fellows/georgios-mouratidis "Georgios Mouratidis"), and [Özge Acar](/fellows/ozge-acar "Özge Acar"), Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies 2025-26 - **Language:** English - **Organized by:** CHS US, CHS Greece - **Open to:** All - **Schedule:** - 11:00-11:30 AM – Presentation by Ermioni Prokopaki - 11:30 AM-12:00 PM – Presentation by Georgios Mouratidis - 12:00-12:30 PM – Presentation by Özge Acar ### Synopsis On April 24, Ermioni Prokopaki, Georgios Mouratidis, and Özge Acar will give presentations of their research to the CHS community. Ermioni is an Ancient Philosophy Scholar, a Fellow at the University of Chicago, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. Her presentation will be on "Plato & Aristotle on the Intersection of Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind." Her research focuses on the conception of the human capacity for truth-telling. Plato's *Theaetetus* argues that unless we can see clearly that the capacity for judgment is teleologically structured with an aim for the truth, we will not be able to defend the coherence of the concept of knowledge against the threats of relativism. Looking at an under-examined passage of the *Theaetetus*, she argues that Plato uses the concept of the future as a misnomer for the notion that our judgments are necessarily subject to truth-conditions because they inherently aim at the truth. In doing so, she explains that Plato is not concerned with the knower's capacity for predictions as it is often thought. Turning to Aristotle's *De Anima*, his treatise on the soul or mind, which is conspicuously inspired by the *Theaetetus*, Ermioni argues that the mechanics of judgment outlined there fail to show our capacity to be oriented to the truth, primarily due to the role of *phantasia* (imagination) and Aristotle's assumption of logical atomism. Georgios is an Ancient Historian, an Assistant Director at the British School at Athens, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. His presentation will be on "The Spatial and Sociopolitical Context of Athletic Inscriptions in the Sanctuary of Olympia during the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods." Athletic monuments were erected in great numbers in cities in eastern Mediterranean, and especially in big Panhellenic sanctuaries, such as Olympia and Delphi. From a modern point of view, it is easy to underestimate the density of honorific statues, their effect on the city's landscape, and their powerful impact on those who viewed them. The huge variety of different views about athletics was partly a result of the large number of viewers in regular contact with these athletic images. Some scholars have begun to see how that ever-present quality is a factor in the variety of athletic opinions, but that work only scratches the surface of the epigraphic material. Even though in recent years, epigraphists have moved the scholarly discussion about the materiality of texts intelligently forward, such studies rarely take into consideration the wealth of athletic inscriptions, making reference to this material only in passing, if at all. This paper builds on earlier scholarship, but offers a new way to read athletic inscriptions, in the process also revealing conceptual links among art, epigraphy, and literature, as well as among cities and Panhellenic sanctuaries. Özge is an Ancient Historian, an Independent Researcher, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. Her presentation will be on "τό ἡμέτερον ἦθος: Honorific Practices and Identity at Halikarnassos." This paper examines how Halikarnassos constructs its local identity and ethos through honorific practices. It focuses on a second-century CE inscription (I.Aphrodisias 12.27.ii.)—a text that consciously articulates the city's cultural values. Considered alongside other epigraphic and archaeological evidence, this honorific act reflects Halikarnassos' long-standing paideia-centered identity. The series of presentations is open to CHS fellows and affiliates as well as to the CHS community via Zoom. See the [Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus description on our website](/research-fellowships/early-career "Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus"). 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