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  • King-Hill Fellow in the Teaching of Latin:The King-Hill award was established o commemorate the work of Joy King, professor emerita and former chair of our department, and Barbara Hill, who for may years served as Latin program coordinator. 
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    The Department of Classics celebrates Sarah James’ first co-authored book, available in digital and print editions.This book represents the culmination of Dr. James’ twelve years working at Corinth.
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    THE DESTRUCTION OF MEMORYFilm ScreeningWednesday, April 26 at 5:30pm in HUMN 1B50 Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results for humanity, and has been steadily increasing. The Destruction of
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    Jackie Elliott is extremely grateful to be the recipient of a Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers, which will take her to Berlin for the 2017-18 academic year. During that time, she will work on a relatively
  • Yvona Trnka-Amrhein photo
     We are delighted to announce that Yvona Trnka-Amrhein will be joining the faculty in fall 2017.  Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Ph.D. Harvard 2013) studies Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, especially
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    Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity
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    BEGINNING CLASSICAL GREEKONLINE - SUMMER 2017 Introductory Greek 1  June 5 - July 7 Introductory Greek 2 July 10 - August 11 Tuition  and Fees: $1588 ($3176 for both courses) Instructor:  Sam Kindick For more
  • poster for mcclanahan lecture by dimitri nakassis on feb 2, 2017
    Forgotten cities hidden in plain sight: archaeology and ancient landscapes in Greecepresented by Professor Dimitri Nakassis Archaeology is usually associated with excavation, a process that brings the past into the present by
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    Transgressive Language in the Ancient WorldKeynote Address by Dr. Amy Richlin, UCLA “The Rise of the Low: Classics and the Study of the Abject”February 3-4, 2017The 鶹Ƶ Classics Graduate Colloquium seeks papers from
  • Andy Cain has won a College Scholar Award that will allow him to extend his autumn 2017 sabbatical through spring 2018, as he completes his current major research project, Jerome’s Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles: Their Sources,
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