Classics & Classical Studies

Commencement Reception for Philosophy, Classics and Classical Studies Seniors and their families.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Dance, Theatre, Classics & Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Religion, and Education Studies.

Remarks & awards for Classics & Classical Studies, Literary Studies, and Philosophy seniors and their families at 5:15 p.m. in the Robison Concert Hall, during the joint reception ongoing from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. in the upper lobby of the Mahaney Arts Center.

Senior reception for Classics and Classical Studies majors and their families. Please contact the department for a link.

Information session for students curious about the LATN 0101 Introductory Latin course that will be offered this winter term. 

Information session for students interested in taking Latin 0101 during winter term 2019.

Information session for students interested in taking Greek 0101 during winter term 2020.

Classics lecture by Ewen Bowie, Oxford University

Sappho was the only woman poet to attain canonical status in the ancient Greek world. The talk will explore how, at the same time as papyri document many readers of her poems in Greco-Roman Egypt in the first 3 centuries AD, Greek writers of different sorts - critics, philosophers, sophists and novelists - displayed their appreciation and knowledge of her poetry and sometimes reworked it to create their new, Sappho-scented prose and poetry.

David Levene, Professor of Classics, New York University

Virginia Closs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The poetry-and-performance obsessed Nero of legend can credibly be imagined as reaching for his lyre (or cithara) to align his burning city more closely with Troy, her mythic predecessor. Yet by the same token Romans, accustomed to drawing these same parallels, can easily be believed to have used them to construct both the accusation of Nero’s alleged arson, and the rumor of this performance during the fire.