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Visiting Scholars

Online Open House | Immigration and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in 4th-Century BCE Athens, with Denise Demetriou

We were pleased to welcome Denise Demetriou, University of California – San Diego, for an Online Open House discussion entitled "Immigration and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in Fourth-Century BCE Athens." The discussion was live-streamed on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel Friday, October 9, at 11 a.m. EDT, and was recorded. This post includes a handout of readings. Read more

Visiting Scholars

CHS Open House | Crossing the Sea: Migration in the Ancient World, with Paul O’Mahony

Watch the video of this CHS Open House discussion which featured a return visit with actor Paul O'Mahony, and focused on the experience of crossing the sea as depicted in classical texts. To prepare for watching it, you might like to read some or all of these passages from the Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, and Aeschylus' Suppliant Women. Read more