Please join the Eve Adler Department of Classics & Classical Studies for a marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. If you would like to participate, everyone is welcome, you can access the sign up sheet at go/epic/.
To Be Announced
Please join the Eve Adler Department of Classics & Classical Studies for a marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. If you would like to participate, everyone is welcome, you can access the sign up sheet at go/epic/.
To Be Announced
Please join the Eve Adler Department of Classics & Classical Studies for a marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. If you would like to participate, everyone is welcome, you can access the sign up sheet at go/epic/.
To Be Announced
Stephanie Frampton, MIT Literature
The trope of “books as friends” has a long history. Pinpointing the earliest appearance of the metaphor in the letters of the Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Cicero, this paper asks what it means to read books as friends, how we make connections with others by sharing texts in common, and what we can learn about the past and the future from reading ancient literature today.
Axinn Center 229
The Kellogg Prize fund was established in May 1918 by Prof. Brainerd Kellogg, Class of 1858 ‘to encourage Latin and English’. This award is given for the best sight translation of a passage from Latin poetry into English. Contestants may use a dictionary. This contest is open to all Middlebury College students.
Twilight 201
Prof. Jed Atkins, Director and Dean; Professor of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina offers a seminar surveying some basic forms civic education has taken in the 20th century and possibilities for the future of civic education in liberal arts institutions. RSVP required for lunch: trish@middlebury.edu
115 Franklin Street main floor, Humanities Center
Jed Atkins, Director and Dean; Professor of Civic Life and Leadership, School of Civic Life and Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This lecture explores the relationship between civic education and the liberal arts by turning to the first writer to have used the term “liberal arts”: the Roman philosopher, rhetorician, and stateman Cicero. A study of Cicero’s work reveals challenges and opportunities for offering a liberal arts education with a substantial civic dimension.
Axinn Center 229
Enjoy cider & donuts while learning about the lifelong profit of taking Beginning Latin during winter term.
Twilight Classics Common/Conference Room
Remarks and awards for Classics and Classical Studies and Literary Studies department seniors and their families.
Mahaney Arts Center 232
