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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

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...

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

Guest post by Christos Aliprantis, Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Habsburg Empire and ‘Imperial Philhellenism’ in the Greek Revolution of 1821

Philhellenism has been widely recognized as a highly influential intellectual and political movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which brought together more often than not classicist aesthetics, liberal ideas, and Christian principles. The Philhellenic mobilization in Europe and North America in favor of the Greek cause above all during the Greek...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Christos Aliprantis on the Philhellenic movement in the Habsburg empire and the advantages of the CHS Fellowship

Guest post by Andreas Athanasakis, Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

Research topic during fellowship: The Platonic Forma Mundi Problem

The pre-doctoral fellowship in Hellenic Studies at CHS has afforded me a unique opportunity to undertake a comprehensive investigation of the Platonic forma mundi problem (i.e., the exact necessary order of the planets), particularly as it relates to the cosmological frameworks posited by the Capellan and Copernican perspectives. Although Plato did not solve the forma mundi problem, he did...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Andreas Athanasakis on the Reception of the Distance-Period Relationship in the Capellan and Copernican Cosmologies

Guest post by Sophia Baltzoi, Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

Research topic during fellowship: The Birth of Tragic Mask through Ritual Practices

Almost a year ago, I applied for the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023. Having been accepted, during the current year, I have gained a lot of important experiences thanks to this fellowship, and I feel more than lucky and grateful as a CHS Fellow.

The Pre-doctoral fellowship, by providing me with the necessary resources and time, helped me to deepen the study of the ritual...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Sophia Baltzoi on her experience as a CHS Pre-doctoral Fellow

Guest post by Aggelos Mefsout, Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

Research topic during fellowship: Multiple cult epithets within the polis: Apollo Delios as a case study

During the ongoing study addressing the cult of Apollo Delios and its diffusion in the Aegean, which I have undertaken in the framework of my doctoral dissertation, I am constantly confronted with the issue of the parallel presence of distinct cults of Apollo within the cultic and ritual context of the same polis. The research carried out under the CHS fellowship was...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Aggelos Mefsout on the cult of Apollo Delios and his takes from the CHS fellowship

Guest post by Maria Spathi, Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis in Ancient Messene, Peloponnese. The Votive Deposit from the Campaign on Site in 2018

The sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis was founded in Early Hellenistic times on the southern slope of Ithome, far from the city center but within the vast fortification wall of the city of Messene. Philippe Le Bas discovered the cult site in the first half of the 19th century. The identification is confirmed by a...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Maria Spathi on findings of cultic traditions for goddess Artemis in the Peloponnese

Guest post by Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023

Research topic during fellowship: Revisiting the Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the Archive of Stephanos A. Koumanoudes (1818-1899) in the National Library of Greece

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, study and collect Greek...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia on Koumanoudes's archival epigraphic papers

Guest post by Dimitrios Kanellakis, Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023

Research topic during fellowship: New Mimnermus

Recent discoveries of lyric fragments have excited both classical scholars and the general public. Our generation has been lucky enough to welcome the ‘new Simonides’ (1992), ‘new Archilochus’ (2005), ‘new’ (2004) and ‘the newest Sappho’ (2014), and these poets have gained immense popularity which has been ‘cashed out’ in new translations, conferences, edited volumes,...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Dimitrios Kanellakis on rediscovering poet Mimnermus and on visiting CHS US