Sleeping your way to heart health
A new Harvard School of Public Health study indicates that there’s more than just olive oil and red wine keeping heart disease rates down in Mediterranean countries. There’s the naps, too. A study that...
View ArticleA denarius in hand is worth two in a book
On exhibit at the Harvard University Art Museums are wide and deep collections that range from ancient Greece statuary to Ottoman textiles to Max Beckmann masterpieces to contemporary American graphic...
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Upon meeting a scholar of literature, one is likely to ask, “What period do you study?” with the likely answer being a fairly narrow slice of the literary pie — the 19th century novel, say, or...
View ArticleScholars give us antiquity — the colorized version
For artists of the Renaissance, the key to truth and beauty lay in the past. Renaissance artists assiduously studied the sculptures and monuments of Greece and Rome and emulated them in their own work....
View ArticleAncient practice sans theory
Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory...
View ArticleKSG launches new program in Greece
A new Harvard program intended to address the needs of nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders will debut in Greece March 25 through 29 at the Athens Information Technology institute (AIT). The...
View ArticleDimitri Hadzi
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences February 10, 2009, the following Minute was placed upon the records. All of us here know at least one sculpture by Dimitri Hadzi — if not the towering...
View ArticleNew Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to Antinoos
Those marvelous ancient Greeks. Thousands of years later, Christopher P. Jones uncorks even more of their allure, probing how mortals became demigods, and why these ancient heroes and heroines were...
View ArticleHKS’s Kokkalis program to offer executive training in Greece
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Kokkalis Program on Southeast and East-Central Europe, which strives to support individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central...
View ArticleAdrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical...
View ArticleErnst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85
Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1. After teaching in the universities of Sheffield, Durham, and Leeds in Britain, and at the State University of New...
View ArticleUniversity of Macedonia honors Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology and curator of European ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Macedonia on Feb. 24....
View ArticleThe battle of the butts
To Professor Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health, estimates that smoking may be banned in the United States by 2050 aren’t good enough. “I want to see the last cigarette sold to a...
View ArticleThe naked truth
Adrian Staehli’s office is lined floor to ceiling with uniform black and red, two-inch-thick binders, which constitute a self-made library of every document he wanted to take with him when he moved...
View ArticleIs Athens Burning?
Fissures in the Eurozone are bubbling over as the Greek government stumbles to come to grips with a new loan deal with the European Union. And troubles in Greece may just be the tip of the iceberg as...
View ArticleGreece: Anatomy of a financial crisis
When the former prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, asked Richard Parker to serve as special economic adviser in 2009, Parker couldn’t refuse. A friend of the Papandreou family since the early...
View ArticleGermany, again a linchpin
European debt problems have ripple effects far beyond the continent and are really concerns affecting modern industrial societies that cannot afford all that their citizens want, a Harvard authority on...
View ArticleA firm voice on Europe
Jan Fischer, former prime minister of the Czech Republic and the leading candidate in the country’s presidential campaign, in a Harvard talk on Thursday blamed the European financial crisis on nations...
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Hallmarks of healthy eating
For a couple of hours last Wednesday, a strange, smoky scent took over the Winthrop Junior Common Room. But it wasn’t a fire in the making — just a case of plump eggplants being slow-grilled one by...
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German central banker sees walls in need of mending
Central banks should focus more on fighting inflation and less on bailing out struggling governments and lagging economies, the head of Germany’s central bank said Monday during a talk at the Minda de...
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